Join me for the penultimate episode of this mini-series where we’ll examine the death of the final canonical victim, in a bloodbath so unimaginable that it has become one of the most memorable Ripper murders, symbolic of his spiralling descent closer and closer to hell. We’ll look at Mary Jane Kelly’s life and try to understand the strange testimony of the witnesses as we encounter a visitor dressed in astrakhan, a man with a sinister black bag bothering women in the area, a missing key and more.

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Credits: Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash

Voices:

Charlie (Crimelapse).........................Mrs Paumier

Eileen (Crimelapse).......................... Lizzie Albrook

Emily G. Thompson (Morbidology)............Mary Jane Kelly

Erik Rivenes (Most Notorious)......................American journalist

Jenny (It's Murder Up North).............................Sarah Lewis

Nick Denton.....................Inspector Beck

Philip Hutchinson...............Dr Thomas Bond and George Hutchinson

Prash..................................Thomas Bowyer, Joseph Barnett and the "Astrakhan Man"

Sophie Stanley...................Mary Jane Kelly singing



Philip Hutchinson’s theatre company: https://www.luckydogtheatreproductions.com/

Charlie & Eileen – Crimelapse podcast https://www.crimelapsepodcast.com/

Jenny – It’s Murder up North podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-murder-up-north_1

Emily G. Thompson – Morbidology podcast https://morbidology.com/

Erik Rivenes – Most Notorious and Where Blood Runs Cold podcasts https://www.mostnotorious.com



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Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby



“Dr Bond’s Post Mortem on Mary Kelly”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/official_documents/pm-kelly.html



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Jones, Richard, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/



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New York Herald resources, Casebook,

https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/new_york_herald/881111.html