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(bell tolling) (horse neighing)
(ominous music)
(tapping)
NARRATOR: When the horror began,
it was one brutal murder after another.
(disembodied screams)
NARRATOR: As blood ran through Whitechapel...
- Come see the body!
NARRATOR: ..the public devoured the breaking news.
- Fred, can you make him speak?
NARRATOR: The words we wrote...
- "Dear boss, my knives are nice and sharp.
I love my work and want to start again."
NARRATOR: ..created a monster.
MAN: "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper."
- What the hell have you done? - Ah!
NARRATOR: The bodies piled up...
- (cheering) NARRATOR: ..so, did the profits.
- Read all about it!
- To The Star newspaper.
NARRATOR: But with police chasing shadows...
- They are humiliating us.
NARRATOR: ..the price of our deadly deception became clear.
- And to hell with the truth, is that it?
NARRATOR: For the sake of headlines,
had we set the Ripper free to kill and kill again.
- There is only one of here with red ink on their hands, Fred.
(ominous music)
(dramatic music)
(dark, pulsing music)
(jaunty music fades in)
(lively chatter, laughter)
R. MORAN: The streets are a dangerous place for anybody.
But that dangerous is multiplied for homeless women.
(dog barking)
You have to be very vigilant
because predators are vigilant too.
(brooding music)
(dog barking)
S. KEOGH: To catch a killer, you have to think like the killer.
As a detective, the eyes of the world are going to be on you.
The pressure is going to be on you to solve this.
(thunderous music)
But you also know that the press are going to be all over it.
- (woman screaming) - (man yelling)
(hooves clopping)
(dramatic music)
S. POLING: As a journalist there is
no greater feeling than seeing your byline
on the front page of a newspaper.
(newspaper boy calling)
- Good morning!
- Good morning, Ernest!
- Good morning!
(typewriter tapping)
S. POLING: But you are only as good as your next story.
Cos that's what gets you paid.
And in Fred's time, that's what got him fed.
MAN: Fred! Bring me the day's stories.
- Coming, sir.
S. POLING: It really was a very precarious life.
- Good morning, T.P.
T.P.: No.
Not good enough.
Boring. (crumples paper)
(tense music sting)
(clock ticking)
We ran this story last week.
Do you people think I don't read my own paper, now, for God's sake?
(tense music sting)
F. RIDDELL: T.P. O'Connor founds The Star in January of 1888.
- Hmm. - He is Irish and he's also an MP.
The Star is a really progressive, left wing, radical paper.
- (newspaper boy calling)
- That's very, very exciting because radical politics
goes against the traditional understanding of the world.
B. NICHOLSON: TP wanted to represent
the voice of ordinary working people.
So, The Star cost half as much as its nearest rivals.
And its style of journalism absolutely revelled in sensation.
But at the beginning, it was a fight to survive amidst tough
competition from rival papers like The Pall Mall Gazette,
The London Evening News and The Illustrated Police News.
- Oh, Jesus Christ.
Ernest, get in here now, man.
(tense music)
- Look, here's the thing... - Shh, shh.
"A dull bank holiday."
This is to be our headline?
- Well, yes, I know it's not the most exciting headline.
But- - Most exciting?
It's not even fucking news, man.
I wouldn't even wipe my arse with it.
Look at my desk,
piled high with correspondence from my constituents from Liverpool
complaining to me of hunger, injustice, corruption.
Now, this is the state of our country now.
And you bring me headlines about the fucking weather.
Last bank holiday, Ernest, you smashed it with a dead woman,
the Rip Gang.
And don't ask me why, people just love that stuff.
- The Emma Smith murder. - Hm. More of that.
S. KEOGH: In April 1888, in Whitechapel,
a horrific attack took place on a lady by the name of Emma Smith.
Before she died of her injuries, Emma told people that she had been
attacked by a gang of men.
The police were unable to identify
who it was that attacked and killed Emma.
But off the back of this story,
the press were able to sell more papers.
- If you don't go out there and give the people something to gawp at
on their bank holiday, well then, they'll just go out
and they'll spend their money on booze, won't they, Fred?
So, fucking entertain them.
If this paper is to survive, boys, and to be honest with you,
I'm not sure if it will, then you need to get out there
and you need to find the stories.
Look at that, Ernest.
All of human life is in those streets.
And up until now,
none of the other papers have even bothered to report it.
But we will.
Cos there's more stories in that city than you can ever dream of.
There are more nightmares too.
(ominous music)
C. PENANT: The East End has always been a ghetto.
It's a tough life, a tough area.
It's always been a dense population or working class people.
- At the end of the 19th century
more than a million people were crammed in back to back houses.
Often in unsanitary conditions.
- Families really had to struggle to put food on the table.
There is no help coming.
The divide between the West End and the East End
is just quite clearly haves and have nots.
(ominous music)
(hooves clomping)
- (clears throat)
Good day. I am looking for Mr Bruner and Mr Coleman.
Thank you.
S. POLING: The newspaper world is doggy dog.
The editor is under the most amount of pressure,
because he is answerable to those above him.
- Ah, Bruner. - T.P.
- Colman.
- Well, you're both looking grand I must say. (chuckles)
I wish I could say the same about the sales figures.
- It's not good, T.P.
(tense music sting)
- Lads, baby steps, baby steps. We will get there in the end.
(chuckles) Trust me. - Well, it's been eight months.
(tense music sting)
B. NICHOLSON: The Star's two biggest backers were both liberal MPs.
And they'd become frustrated at what they saw
as the Tory dominance of the British press.
They wanted to even the score,
and perhaps give themselves a useful new mouthpiece.
But it wasn't going well.
- "A dull bank holiday"?
Thrilling stuff.
Perhaps you have taken on too much. - Now, that's nonsense.
- How can you possibly represent your constituents in Parliament
and run a newspaper?
- Because I can.
Gentlemen, I've got it under control.
I just need you to trust me.
- We could've started our own paper, but instead we invested in yours.
- I know.
- Don't make us regret that decision.
- I won't. - And try not to bankrupt us.
Our pockets are not as deep as you might think.
- (he sighs)
(street chatter) (hooves clomping)
S. POLONG: Then, as is the case today,
newspapers pay for tips from the streets,
desperate to edge ahead of their competitors.
So, if a rumour is spreading of a suspicious dead body in Whitechapel,
it's those with the best network who would have the best start.
- T.P.!
- If this is more street gossip, Ernest, you can keep it.
- It's not, there's been a body found in Whitechapel. A woman.
- Get down there now.
We need the details, all of them.
Was it a fight? Was it a robbery? A jilted lover.
- We don't know. - Well, find out, man.
- Get to Georgia. - To Georgia. I am gone.
- I want to smell the blood.
I want to taste the horseshit in the air.
- There's an expression that every crime reporter was brought up with:
"If it bleeds, it leads."
So the second that you hear that a woman has been murdered,
you are on foot, and you are there.
- COPPER: That's it, lads, come on.
(tense music)
(people clamouring)
- Martha Tabram's death is one that people still discuss
and argue about today.
Was she an early part of the Jack the Ripper series
or was she unrelated?
(people clamouring)
- What happened? Was she murdered?
- I am telling you nothing, son.
- When police officers attend the scene of a murder,
it's chaos.
Reporters turning up, enquiring, asking questions,
wanting to know what is going on.
- That's a yes, then?
- The way you deal with them is you don't tell them anything.
- Oh, fuck off, you bloody vulture.
- But your job as a journalist
is to try and get as close to the crime scene as you can.
So, as soon as you get to that cordon,
you'd speak to as many people as you can
to try and find out every single thing about the victim.
- Do you know her?
- You mean, did I?
Who's asking? I might have.
(coins jangle)
- Here. Did she live here?
- No, they just found her up on the landing.
Thought she was a pile of rags until they saw the blood.
- Nasty accident, you reckon?
- No.
No, it wasn't an accident. It was murder.
(ominous music)
- As a crime reporter,
you know that a murder was always guaranteed to make the front page.
But Fred would have had no idea how dark this story would get.
(tense music sting)
(apprehensive music)
S. POLONG: Within the first few hours of a murder,
what you have to do, as a crime reporter,
is take ownership of that story. You need to stake your claim.
It's literally climbing the mountain and planting that flag.
(brooding music)
P. DEAN: It is something of a shock to the system
the first time you see a murder victim.
(disembodied screams)
There is that sense that a life has been snatched away
very, very recently.
I am not sure that you ever really get used to that.
(brooding music)
(tense music sting)
Martha Tabram had about 39 wounds,
repeated stabbing in areas like the neck, chest, the abdomen.
But some of them are in the genital areas as well.
Which has some significance in terms of the psychopathology
of the offender.
- Coroner? - Yes.
- Fred Best, The Star. Just have a couple of questions.
- You again!
I told you to get out of here. Go on.
- I just had a couple of questions for the coroner.
- No! He has got nothing for you.
- What time do you think the woman was killed?
- You don't have to answer. I won't bloody tell you again, mate.
- Cause of death? - Go on, out you go.
F. RIDDELL: At the time, very little is known about Martha Tabram
apart from the graphic nature of her death.
Today we know far more.
Her marriage had failed.
She had struggled very much with alcohol.
She is someone who was trying to make her way in that difficult world
of poverty and the East End.
But now she's murdered in a brutal, violent, graphic attack.
And it's down to the police to respond and respond quickly.
(knock on door) - Come!
(tense music sting)
- You asked to see me, sir.
- Run me through your progress on the Whitechapel murder.
(tense music sting)
- Our main witness,
the woman who was with the victim on the night of the murder
reported the deceased was seen walking with a soldier,
who had a white band around his hat.
- Coldstream Guards? - Exactly so, sir.
- Not him then.
- Sir Charles Warren was drafted in as commissioner in 1886.
With no policing background.
He was a colonel in the British Army.
His military outlook led to him acting in a quite heavy handed way.
None more so than on the 13th of November 1887, at Trafalgar Square
where Warren's way of policing demonstrations about unemployment
and Irish rights led to many injuries
and to the death of two of the protestors.
It became known as Bloody Sunday.
(distant shouting, yelling)
- It made Warren a lot of enemies.
And as an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament,
T.P. O'Conner was one of them.
It was clear that Warren's priority as commissioner was nothing to do
with street crime, was nothing to do with murder or anything else.
It's public order, pure and simple.
- Just, uh, release a statement to the press.
Something like,
"We would be glad if anyone knowing anything of the occurrence
would come forward and give any information that would throw light
upon the incident." - Yes, sir.
And how would you like us to conduct the rest of the enquiry?
- Just put out the statement, it will all blow over soon enough.
C PENNANT: The East End people mistrust the police.
It was the old fashioned bobby, you know, the peelers
who walk the beat.
But if the police are not doing their job,
then they can't protect us.
(tense music sting)
(hooves clomping)
FRED: "Some person has called this morning for the purpose of seeing
if they could identify the remains." - Several persons.
- "Several persons called this morning for the purpose of seeing
if they could identify remains of the vagrant woman.
- Umm, Scratch vagrant. Nobody gives a fuck about them.
Put- Put "unfortunate woman." - Unfortunate woman.
Then we just get to injuries sustained.
- Right. Well, we should run this past him.
It's strong stuff.
T.P., what do you think of this?
- "The wounds on the body are frightful.
There are about eight on the chest inflicted in almost circular form.
While the probably fatal ones, certainly the largest
and deepest of many, is under the heart.
The wounds appear to be the result of sordid dagger thrusts
rather that of a knife.
No arrest has been made yet."
- So, do we, uh...? Do we run it?
- Well, yes.
Sit down and write it.
(tapping)
S. SIMMONS: People then and now are drawn to the gore
and the drama of something like this when it's happening.
If you are reading this graphic detail in a newspaper, you are going
to enjoy trying to get your head around the detail of the crime
from the comfort of your own home.
We like to feel the fear
while not actually being privy to the offender ourselves.
We like that adrenaline rush when we read stories like this.
It is very, very addictive.
F. RIDDELL: In the last half of the 19th century,
we have had this huge change in literacy amongst working people.
And they want something to read.
So, papers like The Star, The Pall Mall Gazette and The Illustrated
Police News are all vying for this new audience of the newly literate,
knowing that the paper with the most graphic details
would sell the most copies.
NEWSPAPER BOY: Vicious murder on the streets of Whitechapel!
Get the latest!
Vicious murder. Bloody murder.
Read all about it.
- (he sighs)
- I will never get used to the noise and the smell of this place.
I cannot believe you convinced me to move here.
(tense music sting)
- I'm sorry, darling.
- I was just reading this. - (he chuckles)
Marvellous, isn't it?
- For you, I'm sure.
Who was she, this unfortunate woman? Do we know?
- No idea.
F. RIDDELL: Elizabeth O'Connor is a really amazing woman.
She's born in Texas.
And by 1888, she's been married to T.P. for about three years.
She comes from this background of radical politics, women's rights
and being involved in journalism.
- Did you write this?
"The largest circulation of any evening paper in the kingdom"?
- (chuckles) Guilty as charged.
- But you don't have the largest circulation, do you?
- Oh, we will.
When they read it.
You'll see.
- T.P. knows that murder sells.
But then what do you write the next day, and the next day,
and the next day?
You are constantly having to feed the beast.
S. SIMMONS: We are hard-wired as humans
to want to understand the underlying story.
The reason, the rationale why someone would do something
so depraved and so brutal.
It's human nature to want to pull that apart and make sense of it.
Women in particular are always going to be drawn to stories like this.
(door opens) FRED: Hen?
S. SIMMONS: Because it's typically females
that are the victims of murder.
- God, that poor woman! What a horrible way to die.
(tense music sting)
Surely, someone must have seen something or heard something.
- Not a thing. (kisses)
F. RIDDELL: Fred's wife, Henrietta is Whitechapel born and bred.
She's grown up in a pub which her father ran.
Whitechapel is a place that she would have understood very well.
So, this story is going to be really personal.
- I don't know if there is anymore to write about.
It's not like the police will find out who did it.
- Yeah. That's cos the police don't care about people like this.
As far as they are concerned,
it's one less drunk off the streets of Whitechapel.
- Hm.
T.P. is keen we keep on the story, though.
So, I have got to find something.
- The thing is, I mean, who knows?
Next it might be someone we know.
It could be me.
- Don't even think it.
- As the weeks pass,
the police investigation starts to go cold.
But the newspapers are still reporting on the case.
Fuelling speculation and fear in the area about the crime that's
going on in Whitechapel.
(brooding music)
(jaunty music fades in)
(pub chatter)
For the locals, it's just one more thing to think about,
on top of trying to make ends meet.
- (she exhales)
How about you get me one at the same time?
Come on.
(tense music sting)
Haven't I spent enough here tonight to have one on the house?
- Not tonight, Pol. Go home.
- What home do you think I am going to go to, eh?
"Home."
R. MORAN: Homelessness is something that is so far
outside the realm of most people's understanding
that it's difficult really to find words to describe it.
- (she sighs)
R. MORAN: You are constantly
putting one foot in front of the other but where to?
Where are you going?
(muffled shouts)
The truth is you have no where to go.
You are worn out emotionally.
You are worn out mentally.
And your defences are down.
F. RIDDELL: If you are homeless in London in 1888...
- Hi. - ...you didn't have many options.
With the breakdown of her marriage,
Polly is in and out of the workhouses,
she sleeps rough in Trafalgar Square.
- Look, I'll give you the money tomorrow.
- Just give me a bed tonight, please.
MAN: No. We're full.
- Sod you, then! Have it your way.
R. MORAN: I know from experience
that you feel like you were swimming around in a piranha tank,
walking around those streets.
(brooding music)
(tense music sting)
(street chatter)
NEWSPAPER BOY: Get your copy of The Star!
Read the latest news in The Star.
- Good lad. See you later.
- Sorry, T.P., I got to go. - Where?
- Whitechapel! There's been another murder!
Hen. What's going on?
- It happened again.
I just had to come and see it for myself.
- What... - Oh, shit. It's Sergeant Thick.
- Go and see what you can find out. - OK.
- I will see what I can get from Johnny Upright here.
Hello, mate! - Oh, you again.
- What's the deal? - I have still got nothing for you.
- Come on. - Why don't you clear out of it?
(he sighs)
- They are taking the body to the mortuary out the back.
- Where is the mortuary? - In the shed by the workhouse.
- OK. OK.
You go back home, I will see you back there.
- OK. Fred, be careful.
- Hey.
(brooding music)
Jesus!
(lock creaks)
THE KEEPER: Come to see the body?
Uh, yea- Yes.
(coins jangle)
(latch unlocks) (door creaks)
(tense music sting)
S. KEOGH: As an experienced murder investigator
you become used to seeing victims.
THE KEEPER: Do you want the clothes off?
- Yeah.
- What you rarely see is overkill.
You rarely see injuries that go beyond what is necessary
to kill somebody.
(scissors snipping)
When Polly Nichols was examined,
she was found to have severe abdominal injuries.
She had had her throat cut in two places.
She had been brutally attacked.
(brooding music)
- These murders were all about anger.
They were all about dominance.
And they were all about control.
This person hated women.
That's why you see such graphic, dramatic
and seriously violent crimes.
- "No murder was ever more ferociously and more brutally done.
The knife, which must have been a large and sharp one,
was jabbed into the deceased at the lower part of the abdomen.
And then drawn upward, not once but twice.
The first cut veered to the right, slitting up the groin
and passing over the left hip.
The second cut went straight upward along the centre of the body
and reaching to the breastbone."
- (inhales, exhales)
- You saw this for yourself?
- Yes, sir.
I stood there and watched him cut the clothes from her corpse.
Not a policeman or a coroner in sight.
They just scraped her torn up body off the street.
And dumped her there...
...with that man.
It felt wrong, T.P.
It felt like the police don't give a damn about that poor soul,
whoever she was.
And I was just standing there watching.
- (sighs) Run it.
(tense music sting)
- Exactly as it is? - Don't change a word.
- But what good can come of people knowing everything he did to her?
- We are not here to do good, Fred. This isn't the Salvation Army.
We're here to sell fucking papers.
- I will get it to the typesetters. - Good man.
And get this fella a drink. He looks like he might need it.
S. POLING: T.P. knew if you fall behind, you are quickly forgotten.
Every single aspect
of working in the newspaper industry is a competition.
B. NICHOLSON: The Illustrated Police News had already caused uproar
by publishing graphic drawings of the victim's injuries.
So, for The Star to print this amount of gory detail
was a risky move.
But if it worked for them, it would bring enormous rewards.
(hooves clopping)
- Thank you.
(pub chatter)
You alright?
(disembodied voices)
(tense music sting)
- It was so similar to the last one.
The frenzy of it.
- It could be the same man.
- This isn't done by men.
(tense music sting)
It's the work of monsters, maniacs.
- What if it wasn't done by separate men?
- Where are you going? - The office.
- With the murder of Polly Nichols,
the police now had three separate crimes.
Three separate women who'd been attacked and murdered.
The first victim, Emma Smith, in April 1888,
survived long enough to be able to tell people that she was attacked
by a gang of men. Not a lone killer.
There was nothing then until August
when there were two murders
within a space of a few weeks of each other.
First, Martha Tabram. - (muffled speech)
(tense music sting)
- Followed by Polly Nichols.
Now, these two murders
had some similarities in terms of the injuries.
But there were also some key differences.
- The stab wounds that one saw in Martha Tabram's case,
they were very different to incised wounds
that we saw in Polly Nichols' case.
It's a different mechanism of injury.
So, some people have said, "Well, no, that's not the same MO."
- What if they weren't just three random matters, hm?
What if they were all the work of one person,
one crazed, maniacal monster?
Uh, but, Emma Smith, remember?
We know Emma didn't die right away, did she?
Not before she could tell people
it was a gang of three or four young men that did it.
- If we were to go with our own lone maniac theory...
- But we- We're not going to go with this?
- I said, "if".
What evidence do we have to support it?
- This.
The evidence is carved into those women's bodies
like a fucking signature.
Groin to throat.
How many men are truly that depraved?
- Well, the way I see it, lads, is we have two options.
We could give our readers a list of stone cold facts.
Or we could give them something better. (chuckles)
S. POLING: For an editor,
whether the murders are actually linked or not,
isn't it more titillating to suggest that they are linked?
Doesn't that make a better headline?
And if it makes a better headline, doesn't that sell more papers?
- When we look at The Star's circulation figures,
we can see a very steep, upward trajectory
that begins with the creation of the lone killer story.
NEWSPAPER BOY: Killer on the streets on Whitechapel!
Three brutal murders!
Get your papers.!
- "All this leads to the conclusion
that there was a lone maniac haunting Whitechapel,
and that the three women were all victims of his murderous frenzy."
Nobody else is saying it.
Nobody.
- To link the three very separate murders of Emma Smith, Martha Tabram
and Polly Nichols, and claim there's a lone killer
is a pivotal moment for tabloid journalism.
Because it's crossing the line between reporting news
and making news.
- T.P. - Aye, aye.
- We are out already. - What do you mean?
People are queuing down the street to get a copy.
We have sold out. - Then start another print run.
(laughing)
F. RIDDELL: This is an incredibly significant moment
in the history of Jack the Ripper.
Because this is his birth.
This is where you see the mythology of the Ripper
being created by The Star.
- The rest of the press soon catch on.
Even the most respectable and serious minded newspapers
like The Times print this theory of the lone killer.
- This is our story, boys.
And it's going to change the fucking game. Mark my words.
(laughter)
(commotion)
(hooves clopping)
NEWSPAPER BOY: London gripped by fear!
It's all here in The Star!
Buy your paper!
(indistinct speech from adjacent room)
- Ah, here she is! Elizabeth. Come and join us.
- Oh, we're entertaining? You might have said.
Colman and Brunner are here. - Well, how could we stay away?
Your husband and his newspaper are the talk of all of London.
S. KEOGH: When The Star's lone killer theory
starts to link the unconnected murders of Emma Smith,
Martha Tabram and Polly Nichols,
that's going to be a problem.
If I were there investigating these three murders,
it would not be in our interest
for the press to be running off with their own narrative.
- Now, now, gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies...
To The Star newspaper.
- To The Star. - To The Star.
- And its pursuit of the ghastly Whitechapel demon.
(glasses clink) - And to those poor women.
You know, I was thinking of writing something about them.
Their lives, how they ended up in such a destitute situation.
- No, no, no, it will never sell. It's, uh, it's too depressing.
(all chuckling)
- But murder and mutilation aren't depressing?
- Oh, heavens, no. It's much better.
It's terrifying and everyone wants to be terrified.
(laughing)
(all laughing)
S. SIMMONS: It's human nature
to focus on the mindset of the offender.
We like to be scared. We like the fear factor.
But what's clear is that a male dominated newsroom at The Star
led to there being a focus on the offender and sadly not the victims.
F. RIDDELL: The direct consequence of fetishising the killer
and his crimes
means that all public attention shifts onto this monster,
rather than onto the victims, the women themselves.
- (laughing)
- As a journalist you are under pressure to keep the story alive.
- Thank you.
- So, when the newspaper starts to push the idea
of there being a lone killer, what you need next is a name.
- The thing is, if it is just one man doing this
then surely someone's got to know who it is.
- You think? - No, I know.
And actually I know exactly who we can ask.
- Who? - The other women on the street.
- You think I should go and speak to them?
- No chance, you are a press man, they are not going to trust you.
Leave it to me. - Uh, well, Hen, wait. You've got a-
- When The Star is describing these three murders,
it says that they were "unfortunate women."
In Victorian terms that's coded language for people
we now refer to as sex workers.
A term that acknowledges the diverse experiences of those in the past,
from trafficked women to those who embraced its possibility of freedom.
R. MORAN: I have been told that the women of the day were
described as "unfortunate women."
And the first thing I thought when I have heard that was,
at least they were honest in Victorian London.
Women in prostitution
have always had their humanity erased and denied.
I resent the term "sex work,"
because it sanitises the reality of what's happening.
WOMAN: Be safe.
- Excuse me, can I just ask you some questions?
- One of the best ways of trying to solve a crime
is to get down and dirty with the people of the street.
To be speaking to them. Mixing with them.
Listening to the rumours.
- We've all got the fear.
Not one of us wants to go out, but if we don't work...
- Have you got any idea of who it could be?
- We know him alright.
(tense music sting) - Really?
- There is one punter we all try to avoid.
- Who?
- (whispers)
See you.
R. MORAN: There is a constant need
as a woman on the streets to be vigilant.
Predators can clock vulnerability.
So the news of violent men would spread like wildfire.
(tense music sting)
- Have you locked the latest edition?
- Almost. Why?
- We got a name for our lone maniac.
- Hold that thought. Tell me.
- They call him Leather Apron.
- Leather Apron? - Yeah.
- If you are going to name someone as a killer,
you better be right.
- Let's get into the last edition then.
Now, you tell them all downstairs. Hop to it.
- Because if you are wrong, it's going to cost you an awful lot.
- We are going to change the game!
(laughing)
- Your suspect is a crazy Jew?
- I would describe it as irresponsible reporting.
- The Star is calling upon the people of Whitechapel to take
matters into their own hands.
- You can imagine the tension.
- Come and see the body.
- Annie's injuries match that of Polly Nichols.
- It's the same killer.
- The journalists at The Star had blood on their hands.
- We're going to write a letter.
- The Dear Boss Letter is a pivotal moment.
- Where's the body? - Which one?
- Horrific, brutal, torturous violence,
it sells itself, that's why tabloids love it.
- Jesus Christ!
- "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper."
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