Please Note: This content includes references which may not be suitable for young listeners. Listener discretion is advised. It’s finally time for us to peel off the cover on one of the most gruesome crime sprees of all history... one that would burn the name of it’s perpetrator into popular culture for all-time, and would inspire countless copy-cat crimes and come to define the dark side of modernity. There is a silver lining to be found in this story - it’s just that looking for it involves wading through so much dark cloud. In Victorian London, the pea-soup fog lies thick. Footsteps in the darkness, a silent shadow and a demon from hell. Whitechapel’s an ironic name...

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