The Butcher Escalates - Whitechapel Chronicles 3
News of the Times Episode 502 | 1888
By September 1888, fear in Whitechapel had turned to full-blown panic. When Annie Chapman’s mutilated body was found in a narrow yard on Hanbury Street, it became clear—these murders were no longer isolated horrors, but part of something far more chilling.

In this episode, we revisit the scene through the eyes of Victorian newspapers, witnesses, and police reports.
A whispered sound before the violence.
A cryptic message: “Five: Fifteen more, and then I give myself up.”
A killer growing bolder.

False arrests, whispered rumours of “Leather Apron,” organs missing with surgical precision—the East End was unraveling.

And in today's Further Particulars: a bizarre 1888 hoax involving 80 people, a ruined farmer, and a vanishing £6,000.
Hosted by Robin Coles.

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