London, 1888. A shadow stalks the fog-choked alleys of Whitechapel, leaving behind a trail of mutilated bodies and a city gripped by fear. This episode of Crimes of History unpacks the brutal spree of Jack the Ripper — from the lives of the canonical five victims and the chaos of the investigation to the sensationalist press that turned a murderer into legend. More than a century later, his identity remains unknown, but his crimes still haunt history’s darkest corners.

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