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- (dramatic music playing)
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FRED: The savage slaying
of two women in one night.
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- (overlapping chatter)
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- Jesus Christ!
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Had the whole country hooked.
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- Read all about it.
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- My job,
to report every lurid detail
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of the killer's macabre crimes.
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Heart, liver, intestines,
all removed.
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- Come see the body!
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FRED: And keep the public
royally entertained.
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- Words have power, Fred,
now more than ever.
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- And our plan was working.
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We've sold out.
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- Then start another print job
(laughs).
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FRED: Circulation of The Star
was increasing by the day.
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O'CONNOR: To The Star!
ALL: To The Star.
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FRED: And my boss T P had no
intention of letting the story die.
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- Can you make him speak?
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FRANK: Even if it meant
falsifying evidence.
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ABBERLINE: Yours truly,
Jack the Ripper.
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FRED: But how far would he take it?
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- Let's keep the letter out
of the public domain for now.
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FRED: And at what cost to others?
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- You can tell Fred he needs
to write another letter.
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(laughs)
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- (thunder crashes)
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- (theme music plays)
- (keyboard keys clack)
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- (street hum)
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- (gentle music plays)
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O'CONNOR: You can tell Fred
he needs to write another letter.
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- (pen scribbles)
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FRED: I was not coddling
dear old Boss
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when I gave you the tip.
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You'll hear about Saucy Jacky's
work tomorrow.
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- If this was a Hollywood movie...
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isn't it genius that the crime
reporter writes the letter
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that fuels the story that guarantees
him a next shift.
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But it isn't.
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FRED: Double event this time.
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Number one squealed a bit,
couldn't finish it off.
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Had no time to get ear off
for police.
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Thanks for keeping the last letter
back until I got to work again.
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Jack the Ripper.
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- I can't imagine
what it would have been like
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for Fred to be sitting there
being put under that pressure.
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How do you say no to that?
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Because you know that just over
the shoulder is another journalist
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who will say, yes.
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- It's quite an extraordinary thing
for Fred to have done.
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To try and get inside the mind
of a crazed killer like this.
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To try and imagine the kind
of language he would have used.
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But of course he would have
had to do that to make it convincing
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and to make it sensational
enough to sell newspapers.
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- You're back early.
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- Yeah. Not stopping.
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- What's all that?
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- Nothing just notes.
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- You know I heard he struck
twice in one night. Is that true?
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- Yeah, it's true.
So, stay home tonight, will you?
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- Where, where are you going?
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FRED: Off to work.
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- (door shuts)
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- For God's sake!
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- (tense music plays)
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- The next communication received
at the Central News Agency
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purporting to be from
Jack the Ripper,
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became known as
the Saucy Jack postcard.
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And in there the alleged killer
writes about
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killing two victims.
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So, this leads off from
the double event murders
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of Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
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- The Saucy Jack postcard
is really interesting
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because it follows the same language
and terminology
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of the Dear Boss letter.
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They feel very similar;
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they sound like
they are by the same person.
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FRED: Double event this time,
number one squealed a bit,
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couldn't finish it off.
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- Because of how quickly
the second letter arrives
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at the Central News Agency
and because it had such detailed
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knowledge of the murders,
people felt these letters
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couldn't be written by anyone else
other than the person responsible.
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In recent history the handwriting
was analysed,
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and it found that not only did those
letters match
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and that they were
by the same author.
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That author was most likely
Fred Best.
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MAN: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.
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- (dramatic music plays)
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- T P, I have just been having lunch
with an old colleague
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from The Daily News.
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They are publishing the letters.
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And we can get the story out too
by fifth edition if we start now.
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FRED: Yes.
ERNEST: Come on, Fred.
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- Wait!
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What if we spike their guns?
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- How?
They are already going to print.
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It will be out by tomorrow.
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- Well, they think they have got
the real thing already, don't they?
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What about instead of trying
to get it out ahead we make it
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known that these letters are almost
certainly a hoax.
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- Undermine the exclusive.
- (light thud of filing cabinets)
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ERNEST: Genius!
O'CONNOR: Get to it!
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- I think this is very much
an attempt
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to kind of throw anyone else
off the scent.
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It's incredibly confusing
if you think The Star
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is responsible for these letters.
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For this invention
of Jack the Ripper.
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- (typewriter keys clanging)
- (laughs)
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- And The Star was one of
the first papers to break the news.
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- (O'Connor continues laughing)
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- (dramatic music playing)
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- On October 1st the world learns
the name Jack the Ripper.
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So, it would have been a really
explosive moment.
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- What a name!
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Horrific, brutal, torturous violence
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of the worst kind.
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I mean it sells itself,
that's why tabloids love it.
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NEWSPAPER BOY:
Read all about it!
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- (street hum)
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- (gentle music plays)
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- The decision to release
the letters to the press
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came from the commissioner
of the police, Charles Warren
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and lead investigator
Frederick Abberline.
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MAN: I keep on hearing
the police have caught me.
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I am down on whores,
and I shan't quit.
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- They now had two letters
from a Jack the Ripper,
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who seemed to have inside knowledge
of the crimes.
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Even if there was a 5% chance
that these letters
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were written by the killer,
you still had to try and see
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if there was anybody that could
recognise this handwriting.
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Anybody that could recognise
the words that were being used.
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Is there a pattern in speech
that might spark someone
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if they are close to you, your
husband, your brother, your son.
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MAN: You will soon hear of me
with my funny little games.
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- Even if they thought it was
the longest shot in the world,
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they had to take it,
because let's be honest,
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they didn't have an awful lot
to go on.
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- (office hum)
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SGT THICK: Sir!
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- Well, if this truly is the work
of The Ripper
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perhaps he's just made
his first mistake.
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- Well, how so?
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- I had a school master
who used to say,
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he could tell us each apart
by the curves of our written work.
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He said handwriting was unique
to every one of us.
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We need to get these letters
out there.
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- Well, they are in all the papers
already.
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- That may be but these letters
deserve a broader reach.
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Have them made up as posters
and put up all over London.
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- Yes, sir.
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- If someone recognises
his handwriting,
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then old Jack here might just have
signed his own death warrant.
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- (tense music plays)
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- This was a potential line
of enquiry
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that could have led them
to the person they were looking for.
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But The Star was deliberately
misleading the enquiry.
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- The Star is the only paper to say,
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"But this is all a hoax."
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- And they accused all the other
papers of being duped by it,
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of being fools.
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Only The Star is wise enough to see
this for what it really is.
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- Not only have they created
this monster Jack the Ripper.
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But they are now going to expose
everyone else
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as falling for hysteria and mob
panic that they have created.
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- (music drowns out speech)
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- (dramatic theme music plays)
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(dramatic theme music plays)
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- (dramatic music playing)
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- Hen, listen, please,
let me, let me explain.
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- What the hell have you done?
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What! I know you are lying to me
because I saw that you wrote it.
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You signed it Jack the Ripper.
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- Don't say Jack the Ripper
out loud.
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You know I am not a killer,
you know I am not Jack.
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- Well then why would you write it?
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- It was only meant
to be a bit of fun.
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T P, you know, he said,
hold the public's imagination.
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Keep the story ticking over.
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- Have you lost your mind?
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- I don't know.
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- You do realise if they find out it
was you, you are a dead man.
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They will hang you Fred,
no questions asked.
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FRED: Hen, wait!
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- Fred's letters for the real killer
were an absolute gift.
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Because police started to focus
resources, manpower,
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into the details
that are in those letters
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while the killer is able to continue
with impunity.
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- (horse clip clopping)
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- Exclusive!
Jack the Ripper's bloody joke.
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Read all about it.
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Exclusive! Jack the Ripper's
bloody joke. Read all about it.
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- Mrs O'Connor.
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- Oh, I recognise you.
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- I am Henrietta Best.
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My husband works for your husband
here at The Star.
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Well, all hours God sends.
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- Yes. (laughs)
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It's become an obsession.
- Mmm.
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It's funny, isn't it,
that the more of these women die,
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the more alive they all seem.
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- The Ripper thirsts for blood
and they thirst for what?
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- Money?
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- I think it's more than that.
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They are captivated by the hunt.
The clarion call for their quarry.
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- Wow! It sounds like you should be
the writer.
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- I am. But sadly they are not
interested in a woman's opinion.
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I am consigned to the society pages
for now.
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- Oh, that's a shame.
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- I think that there's
a clear misogynistic element
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to The Ripper murders.
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And The Ripper himself.
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As if he was some kind
of entertaining anti-hero.
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If Jack the Ripper had murdered
vulnerable young men and boys,
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would we have Jack the Ripper
memorabilia on sale today?
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I very much doubt that.
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- (door opens)
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- (footsteps approach)
O'CONNOR: Elizabeth, I...
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- (door closes)
O'CONNOR: I wasn't sure that you
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would be home this evening.
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- Really?
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With a maniac on the loose
you thought
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I might be out for
an evening stroll, darling?
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- (footsteps continue, liquid pours)
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ELIZABETH: I saw Fred Best's wife
today. She seemed worried
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about her husband.
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- Oh, Fred. Ha! Is he being scolded
for being late out at play?
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- (dramatic music plays)
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- Is that what this is for you?
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Play?
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One big game of hide and seek?
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- Well, at least we're trying
to find him.
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It's a lot more
than can be said for The Met.
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- I don't think anyone's
really trying to find him.
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Because I don't think anyone
really cares.
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O'CONNOR: Oh, come on.
- If it was distinguished gentlemen
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being slaughtered in the streets
or politicians,
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do you not think they would have
found him by now?
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- But it isn't.
- (dramatic music intensifies)
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- No.
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No, it's just some unfortunate women
and no one cares about them.
242
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Not the police, not the politicians,
no one.
243
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It is women
who are being slaughtered
244
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and it's women who pay the price
in constant fear
245
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and curtailed freedoms.
246
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- They will find him, Elizabeth.
247
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And until they do, we will hold
to account those responsible
248
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for letting him get away with it.
249
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That if nothing else, I promise you.
250
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- By this point in the investigation
there's a huge climate of distrust
251
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of the police.
252
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The press is targeting
Charles Warren.
253
00:14:04,661 --> 00:14:07,381
And the situation feels
incredibly unstable.
254
00:14:08,861 --> 00:14:10,821
NEWSPAPER BOY: Killer stalking
the streets of London.
255
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Get your copy of The Star!
256
00:14:13,061 --> 00:14:14,461
- T P!
257
00:14:14,621 --> 00:14:16,061
- What?
- I have just been speaking to
258
00:14:16,221 --> 00:14:17,861
a copper at Catherine Eddowes
funeral.
259
00:14:18,021 --> 00:14:20,501
He told me exactly why Warren
was at the crime scene at 05:00AM.
260
00:14:20,661 --> 00:14:22,501
- (street hum)
261
00:14:22,661 --> 00:14:25,141
- A message had been written
on the wall in chalk.
262
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They think it is from
the actual Ripper.
263
00:14:28,141 --> 00:14:29,141
- That's extraordinary.
264
00:14:29,301 --> 00:14:34,101
- What's more extraordinary is
that Warren had them wash it off.
265
00:14:34,261 --> 00:14:35,701
ERNEST: No!
266
00:14:35,861 --> 00:14:37,821
FRED: He didn't want anyone
to see it.
267
00:14:37,981 --> 00:14:38,981
- What did it say?
268
00:14:42,621 --> 00:14:46,341
- The Jews are the men that will not
be blamed for nothing.
269
00:14:47,381 --> 00:14:49,501
- What the hell is Warren thinking?
270
00:14:49,661 --> 00:14:51,781
There has been so little genuine
evidence to go on.
271
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What would possess the man to get
rid of the one real piece he finds?
272
00:14:56,461 --> 00:14:58,461
- It makes no sense.
273
00:14:58,621 --> 00:15:01,301
- When Charles Warren made
the decision that this graffiti
274
00:15:01,461 --> 00:15:03,341
should be washed down...
275
00:15:04,901 --> 00:15:10,341
his motivations for doing so was
that it had antisemitic connotations
276
00:15:10,501 --> 00:15:12,901
in a predominantly Jewish area.
277
00:15:14,101 --> 00:15:18,301
And that was made more difficult by
some of the irresponsible reporting
278
00:15:18,461 --> 00:15:19,901
that was going on in the press.
279
00:15:20,861 --> 00:15:24,461
On the potential that our killer
was of Jewish heritage,
280
00:15:25,661 --> 00:15:29,221
Warren's motivations
were one of public order.
281
00:15:29,381 --> 00:15:34,061
When what there should have been,
is one of evidence gathering.
282
00:15:34,221 --> 00:15:36,621
- T P O'Connor definitely
has a personal axe to grind
283
00:15:36,781 --> 00:15:37,861
with Charles Warren.
284
00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,181
This is the man who
is the Head of The Met.
285
00:15:40,341 --> 00:15:43,341
And he becomes the figurehead
for a lot of people
286
00:15:43,501 --> 00:15:45,501
as the only person
left to blame.
287
00:15:46,261 --> 00:15:48,021
- This is it.
288
00:15:48,181 --> 00:15:50,181
This is the story we could take him
down with.
289
00:15:51,981 --> 00:15:53,021
Write it!
290
00:15:53,181 --> 00:15:54,381
- (dramatic music plays)
291
00:16:00,861 --> 00:16:02,581
- T P already had it in for Warren
292
00:16:02,741 --> 00:16:04,981
long before The Ripper murders
started.
293
00:16:06,061 --> 00:16:09,061
The previous year, before The Star
was launched in 1887,
294
00:16:09,221 --> 00:16:12,221
there had been a great gathering
of socialist demonstrators
295
00:16:12,381 --> 00:16:13,461
in Trafalgar Square.
296
00:16:15,501 --> 00:16:18,581
FERN: They were for people
who desperately wanted to see a free
297
00:16:18,741 --> 00:16:20,901
Ireland and the English out.
298
00:16:21,541 --> 00:16:24,381
But the police presence had been
very heavy handed,
299
00:16:24,541 --> 00:16:25,701
and two people had died.
300
00:16:29,301 --> 00:16:33,461
As a staunch supporter of home rule
and a free Ireland,
301
00:16:33,621 --> 00:16:35,901
T P is never going to forgive
Charles Warren.
302
00:16:36,061 --> 00:16:37,701
He is always going to want to make
him pay.
303
00:16:41,301 --> 00:16:42,301
- (dog barks)
304
00:16:45,781 --> 00:16:50,141
STEVE: By October 1888, there had
been dozens of reported instances...
305
00:16:50,301 --> 00:16:51,301
- (knocking on door)
306
00:16:51,461 --> 00:16:53,781
STEVE: ..where supposedly
Jack the Ripper had contacted
307
00:16:53,941 --> 00:16:55,181
members of the public.
308
00:16:55,341 --> 00:16:56,741
- (door creaks open)
309
00:16:56,901 --> 00:16:59,461
- But the most shocking
arrived at the home
310
00:16:59,621 --> 00:17:01,901
of the Chairman of the Whitechapel
Vigilance Committee,
311
00:17:04,101 --> 00:17:05,101
George Lusk.
312
00:17:08,821 --> 00:17:10,381
- So, George Lusk is a local
businessman
313
00:17:10,541 --> 00:17:13,061
and he setup
the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee
314
00:17:13,221 --> 00:17:15,501
to among other things
patrol the streets
315
00:17:15,661 --> 00:17:17,141
and try and make them safer
for women.
316
00:17:22,261 --> 00:17:23,541
- (knife gently taps down on table)
317
00:17:33,981 --> 00:17:35,021
- (tense music plays)
318
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:43,261
- (retches)
319
00:17:46,461 --> 00:17:49,261
- People had received letters
supposedly from the killer already.
320
00:17:49,421 --> 00:17:53,341
But this time it was accompanied
by what seemed to be a human kidney.
321
00:17:53,501 --> 00:17:54,741
- (continues retching)
322
00:17:59,541 --> 00:18:03,861
- It's very easy to write a letter
to purport to be from a killer
323
00:18:04,021 --> 00:18:06,461
claiming that you have knowledge
of the crimes.
324
00:18:08,541 --> 00:18:10,541
But where do you get a piece
of human kidney from?
325
00:18:16,061 --> 00:18:17,381
- From hell.
326
00:18:17,541 --> 00:18:22,021
Mr Lusk, sir, I send you half
the kidney I took from one woman.
327
00:18:22,181 --> 00:18:25,581
I preserved it for you.
The other piece I fried and ate.
328
00:18:26,981 --> 00:18:27,981
- Who wrote that?
Did you?
329
00:18:28,141 --> 00:18:29,221
FRED: No.
- Did you?
330
00:18:29,381 --> 00:18:31,101
- No.
- Where is the letter now?
331
00:18:31,261 --> 00:18:32,781
- With the police.
332
00:18:33,461 --> 00:18:34,901
It must be a prank, no?
333
00:18:35,861 --> 00:18:37,781
If we convinced them
our letters were real.
334
00:18:37,941 --> 00:18:39,901
How do we know other papers
aren't doing the same.
335
00:18:40,781 --> 00:18:42,821
ERNEST: Catherine Eddowes
was missing a kidney.
336
00:18:44,421 --> 00:18:45,621
- Then print it.
337
00:18:45,781 --> 00:18:47,741
If it turns out to be a joke,
it is still a damn good story.
338
00:18:47,901 --> 00:18:50,661
- And to hell with
the fucking truth, is that it, T P?
339
00:18:54,261 --> 00:18:56,701
You do realise the police are up
to their necks in false confessions
340
00:18:56,861 --> 00:18:58,941
and copycat letters ever
since we sent ours.
341
00:18:59,101 --> 00:19:00,501
- We?
342
00:19:01,301 --> 00:19:03,981
There is only one of us here
with red ink on their hands, Fred.
343
00:19:04,141 --> 00:19:05,181
- (tense music plays)
344
00:19:09,421 --> 00:19:12,181
- I think very often the reporter
will carry the can.
345
00:19:12,341 --> 00:19:15,021
If you have an editor telling you
to do something
346
00:19:15,181 --> 00:19:19,541
and you go ahead and do it,
where does the responsibility lie?
347
00:19:19,701 --> 00:19:21,381
- (tense music continues playing)
348
00:19:25,781 --> 00:19:28,781
- The kidney that was sent
to Mr Lusk
349
00:19:28,941 --> 00:19:31,141
of the Whitechapel Vigilance
Committee
350
00:19:31,301 --> 00:19:33,181
was certainly a significant moment.
351
00:19:34,541 --> 00:19:39,341
The police would want to know is
this real or is it someone hoaxing.
352
00:19:51,341 --> 00:19:54,061
- So, it's clear this is half
of a human kidney.
353
00:19:54,221 --> 00:19:56,381
Left organ divided lengthways.
354
00:19:56,541 --> 00:19:59,981
The kidney shows an advanced
state of nephritis information...
355
00:20:00,141 --> 00:20:02,461
- Which is?
- It's a common ailment.
356
00:20:03,381 --> 00:20:06,261
Ginny kidney they called it.
It's a drinkers' disease.
357
00:20:08,261 --> 00:20:10,821
- And you say, Catherine Eddowes
suffered from Ginny kidney?
358
00:20:12,621 --> 00:20:13,941
And it's the left one.
359
00:20:14,981 --> 00:20:16,341
In which case we might suppose...
360
00:20:17,381 --> 00:20:20,701
- Not conclusively, but it
certainly increases the likelihood.
361
00:20:21,701 --> 00:20:24,181
This could be the kidney that was
removed from the victim.
362
00:20:27,021 --> 00:20:28,701
- Thank you.
363
00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:32,821
- When I reflect on all
of the communications
364
00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:35,421
received in this enquiry,
365
00:20:35,581 --> 00:20:39,261
if there was one that was more
likely to be from the killer,
366
00:20:39,421 --> 00:20:40,461
for me it was this one.
367
00:20:41,901 --> 00:20:46,581
We have a piece of human kidney,
shortly after Catherine Eddowes
368
00:20:46,741 --> 00:20:50,381
was murdered having had a piece
of her kidney removed.
369
00:20:51,661 --> 00:20:53,421
So, for Abberline this would be
a lead
370
00:20:53,581 --> 00:20:55,461
he would have to have taken
seriously.
371
00:20:58,181 --> 00:20:59,501
- (music drowns out speech)
372
00:21:00,821 --> 00:21:03,381
- (dramatic theme music plays)
373
00:21:06,501 --> 00:21:07,941
(dramatic theme music plays)
374
00:21:17,581 --> 00:21:18,741
- (bells ring)
375
00:21:25,621 --> 00:21:27,021
- Don't you knock?
- (door shuts)
376
00:21:30,501 --> 00:21:33,541
- You're drunk!
- Chance would be a fine thing.
377
00:21:33,701 --> 00:21:35,101
I have given you all my money.
378
00:21:35,261 --> 00:21:36,501
- I am starving!
379
00:21:37,661 --> 00:21:38,821
You are skint?
380
00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:44,741
You expect me to do what,
sing for my fucking supper?
381
00:21:48,021 --> 00:21:50,101
- Mary Jane Kelly is in her mid-20s,
382
00:21:50,261 --> 00:21:54,421
and we know that she told friends
that she had been born in Ireland
383
00:21:54,581 --> 00:21:56,861
and grown up in Cardiff in Wales.
384
00:21:57,021 --> 00:22:00,781
We also know that of the people
and the women involved in sex work
385
00:22:00,941 --> 00:22:04,101
she had been managing to turn it
to her advantage.
386
00:22:05,581 --> 00:22:09,501
- By 1888 Mary Jane Kelly
is really down on her luck.
387
00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:12,941
And she is living in poverty with
a man by the name of Joseph Barnett.
388
00:22:15,141 --> 00:22:16,181
- Whose coat is this?
389
00:22:18,221 --> 00:22:21,421
I said, who's fucking coat, is it?
390
00:22:23,221 --> 00:22:24,221
I had a friend stay over.
391
00:22:24,381 --> 00:22:27,221
She would have been out
on the street otherwise.
392
00:22:27,381 --> 00:22:29,701
- A whore in our house.
393
00:22:29,861 --> 00:22:32,021
- It isn't your house.
394
00:22:32,181 --> 00:22:34,941
And there is already one whore
living here so why not two?
395
00:22:36,701 --> 00:22:40,421
- Oh, shut it, just shut it,
shut it. I told you to stop that.
396
00:22:40,581 --> 00:22:42,461
- I never promised that.
397
00:22:42,621 --> 00:22:46,381
You're the one that keeps hoping
I will change. I do what I do.
398
00:22:46,541 --> 00:22:48,981
Because I choose to, Joseph.
399
00:22:49,141 --> 00:22:55,101
Because I need to, to survive
since you clearly can't support me.
400
00:22:55,261 --> 00:22:59,741
- Love is something that you can
find in the most
401
00:22:59,901 --> 00:23:01,861
unlikely of places.
402
00:23:02,741 --> 00:23:08,621
But there are experiences in life
that make love very, very hard.
403
00:23:08,781 --> 00:23:11,381
And of course prostitution
is going to be one of them
404
00:23:12,341 --> 00:23:16,741
because it attacks relationships
from all sides.
405
00:23:17,981 --> 00:23:20,341
- How can you let those men
stick their tongues
406
00:23:20,501 --> 00:23:24,141
down your throat
and push their filthy hands
407
00:23:24,301 --> 00:23:26,901
and dirty cocks inside you.
408
00:23:27,061 --> 00:23:31,941
- You just can't stand the fact
that I don't need you to save me.
409
00:23:35,061 --> 00:23:38,141
- You are disgusting! (scoffs)
410
00:23:38,301 --> 00:23:40,461
- And you're pathetic. Get out!
411
00:23:40,621 --> 00:23:41,621
Ahhh!
412
00:23:43,901 --> 00:23:44,901
(gasps and sighs)
413
00:23:50,181 --> 00:23:52,341
- I did seven straight years
in the sex trade.
414
00:23:53,421 --> 00:23:59,301
It's a really corrosive experience
for human relationships.
415
00:23:59,461 --> 00:24:03,901
I left once and I never went back.
416
00:24:05,581 --> 00:24:11,181
But I do know instinctually I sense,
that going back,
417
00:24:11,341 --> 00:24:15,221
having thought
that I had got out for good
418
00:24:15,381 --> 00:24:17,901
would have been
absolutely devastating.
419
00:24:25,301 --> 00:24:26,461
- (pub hum)
420
00:24:27,941 --> 00:24:31,741
- They've found another body.
He's done it again! (door closes)
421
00:24:31,901 --> 00:24:33,301
- Fred, get down there!
422
00:24:36,381 --> 00:24:37,381
Go on!
423
00:24:40,021 --> 00:24:41,021
- Yes, boss.
424
00:24:43,621 --> 00:24:44,821
On my way.
425
00:24:44,981 --> 00:24:46,901
- (door opens and shuts)
426
00:24:47,901 --> 00:24:49,221
- What is the problem with him?
427
00:24:50,741 --> 00:24:54,621
- Well, perhaps our news hound
has lost his appetite.
428
00:24:58,461 --> 00:25:02,421
- (tankard lightly thuds,
dramatic music plays)
429
00:25:02,581 --> 00:25:04,741
- Fred was working on the frontline;
430
00:25:05,381 --> 00:25:08,701
he is seeing the worst that life
can offer.
431
00:25:08,861 --> 00:25:10,421
- (street screams)
432
00:25:11,261 --> 00:25:13,741
SAMANTHA: The way these women
were murdered.
433
00:25:13,901 --> 00:25:16,141
There are no words that could
accurately describe
434
00:25:16,301 --> 00:25:17,661
what he was faced with.
435
00:25:17,821 --> 00:25:20,101
- Come see the body!
436
00:25:20,261 --> 00:25:22,141
- You can't unsee these things.
437
00:25:22,981 --> 00:25:23,981
You just can't.
438
00:25:28,501 --> 00:25:33,301
So, for someone like Fred
this is horrific.
439
00:25:34,421 --> 00:25:36,981
- (street hum)
440
00:25:43,301 --> 00:25:44,381
- Hey.
441
00:25:44,541 --> 00:25:45,861
- Hi.
442
00:25:47,541 --> 00:25:50,341
ABBERLINE: Find out who lives
here, alright.
443
00:25:51,981 --> 00:25:54,661
Any news on this bloody landlord?
OFFICER: No, sir.
444
00:25:54,821 --> 00:25:57,061
- Well, keep working on it.
445
00:26:01,501 --> 00:26:04,701
- When you look at the previous
murders in the series,
446
00:26:05,501 --> 00:26:08,501
they were murders carried out
on the street.
447
00:26:08,661 --> 00:26:12,141
And there was that ever present risk
of being caught.
448
00:26:12,301 --> 00:26:15,621
This was really the first time
that he had killed inside.
449
00:26:17,021 --> 00:26:20,341
- Mary Jane Kelly was now
potentially the fifth victim
450
00:26:20,501 --> 00:26:21,861
of this killer.
451
00:26:22,021 --> 00:26:26,061
And I can't think of any crime
I have ever investigated
452
00:26:26,221 --> 00:26:28,581
that had got to this level
of violence.
453
00:26:28,741 --> 00:26:30,181
- (tense music plays)
454
00:26:40,581 --> 00:26:44,741
OFFICER: Sir, do you want us
to kick the door in? Sir?
455
00:26:44,901 --> 00:26:46,461
ABBERLINE: Break it.
456
00:26:46,621 --> 00:26:48,141
- (dramatic music playing)
457
00:26:49,421 --> 00:26:53,981
- If we think about those officers
arriving at that scene,
458
00:26:54,141 --> 00:26:55,701
what they would have been
confronted with
459
00:26:55,861 --> 00:26:57,621
would have been shocking for them.
460
00:26:57,781 --> 00:26:59,181
- (retches)
461
00:27:01,661 --> 00:27:04,101
- Sir, the photographer is here.
462
00:27:05,141 --> 00:27:06,861
- Document everything.
463
00:27:09,621 --> 00:27:10,781
Close the door.
464
00:27:14,861 --> 00:27:16,781
- (camera shutter clicks)
465
00:27:18,821 --> 00:27:22,021
- When you look at the photos
466
00:27:22,181 --> 00:27:23,901
that are still in existence
467
00:27:25,941 --> 00:27:27,901
they are appalling,
and they leave you with a sense
468
00:27:28,061 --> 00:27:31,621
of complete revoltion
at what he's done.
469
00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:38,021
He just removed tissues,
470
00:27:38,181 --> 00:27:41,461
removed breasts.
471
00:27:41,621 --> 00:27:43,741
Opened the abdomen.
472
00:27:43,901 --> 00:27:46,461
Almost emptied out the abdomen.
473
00:27:46,621 --> 00:27:51,301
On one particular thigh
removed pretty much all the muscles.
474
00:27:51,461 --> 00:27:54,141
He opened the chest.
475
00:27:54,301 --> 00:27:56,261
Took the heart out.
476
00:27:56,421 --> 00:28:00,301
And really just did the most
horrendous mutilation to the face.
477
00:28:03,821 --> 00:28:06,061
- If a woman is murdered,
478
00:28:06,221 --> 00:28:08,941
statistically there is a 50% chance
479
00:28:09,101 --> 00:28:12,741
that it is going to be at the hands
of their partner or ex-partner.
480
00:28:12,901 --> 00:28:16,981
It's something we know now,
and I am sure they were aware of
481
00:28:17,141 --> 00:28:18,421
back in 1888.
482
00:28:20,661 --> 00:28:23,701
So, Mary Jane Kelly's partner Joseph
would have been somebody
483
00:28:23,861 --> 00:28:27,341
that everybody wanted to talk to,
to get his version of events.
484
00:28:29,021 --> 00:28:31,821
- That looks like him there.
- Where?
485
00:28:31,981 --> 00:28:33,061
- At the bar.
486
00:28:34,741 --> 00:28:37,061
Be careful though, OK.
I'll wait here.
487
00:28:40,261 --> 00:28:41,421
- Yeah.
488
00:28:49,501 --> 00:28:52,061
Joseph Barnett, is it? Is it?
489
00:28:54,061 --> 00:28:55,741
- Yeah.
490
00:28:55,901 --> 00:28:56,901
It is.
491
00:28:59,741 --> 00:29:02,741
- I, um, I just wanted to ask you
a few questions
492
00:29:02,901 --> 00:29:03,981
for The Star newspaper.
493
00:29:05,381 --> 00:29:06,381
- The Star newspaper.
494
00:29:06,541 --> 00:29:10,461
You will be wanting to know all
about my Marie Jeanette, I suppose.
495
00:29:11,461 --> 00:29:12,981
I thought it was Mary Jane.
496
00:29:13,141 --> 00:29:16,501
- You thought it was Mary Jane.
No, sir, no.
497
00:29:16,661 --> 00:29:18,821
Marie Jeanette.
498
00:29:18,981 --> 00:29:21,901
And I can tell you all about her
for The Star newspaper, I can.
499
00:29:24,301 --> 00:29:26,501
- Um, how long were you together?
500
00:29:27,301 --> 00:29:29,861
- Together, about a year and a half.
501
00:29:30,021 --> 00:29:33,741
And we still would be
if it wasn't for her...
502
00:29:38,541 --> 00:29:40,821
...violent habits.
503
00:29:42,301 --> 00:29:45,701
But what do you expect
from a Limerick woman. (laughs)
504
00:29:47,381 --> 00:29:48,381
Did you write that down?
505
00:29:48,541 --> 00:29:49,781
- Yeah.
JOSEPH: Yeah.
506
00:29:49,941 --> 00:29:51,101
- Yeah.
507
00:29:52,101 --> 00:29:53,581
- I have been with the police
two hours
508
00:29:53,741 --> 00:29:58,181
telling them that I saw...
509
00:30:02,421 --> 00:30:07,741
whispers: the body by peeping
through the window.
510
00:30:08,781 --> 00:30:09,941
Oh!
511
00:30:16,821 --> 00:30:22,261
(sighs) We were happy, we were.
512
00:30:24,181 --> 00:30:27,701
Apart from when she let that
fucking woman in the house!
513
00:30:30,101 --> 00:30:31,101
(exhales)
514
00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:37,501
I left them to it.
515
00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:45,981
And then I gave her no money
on Thursday.
516
00:30:47,621 --> 00:30:49,781
And then I saw nothing more of her.
517
00:30:52,461 --> 00:30:53,461
(sobbingly laughs)
518
00:30:58,181 --> 00:30:59,701
Nothing.
519
00:31:02,581 --> 00:31:04,141
- Thank you, Joseph. Bless.
520
00:31:04,301 --> 00:31:05,301
- Thank you.
521
00:31:05,461 --> 00:31:08,341
- There's no doubt
that Joseph Barnett's relationship
522
00:31:08,501 --> 00:31:10,901
with Mary Jane Kelly
had been volatile.
523
00:31:11,061 --> 00:31:14,301
The smashed window from an argument
was evidence of this.
524
00:31:14,461 --> 00:31:17,461
But Barnett provided an alibi
which checked out.
525
00:31:17,621 --> 00:31:18,901
- (sobbingly laughs)
526
00:31:19,061 --> 00:31:22,101
- So, the police were happy to
eliminate him from their enquiries.
527
00:31:25,541 --> 00:31:28,221
The injuries to Mary Jane Kelly
were so appalling
528
00:31:28,381 --> 00:31:31,101
that it was difficult to understand
who would be responsible
529
00:31:31,261 --> 00:31:33,661
for something so grotesque.
530
00:31:39,261 --> 00:31:41,741
- (clock chimes in distance)
531
00:31:41,901 --> 00:31:45,941
- The poor woman lay
on her back on the bed.
532
00:31:46,941 --> 00:31:50,701
Her throat was cut from ear to ear
right down to the spinal column.
533
00:31:50,861 --> 00:31:52,981
The ears and the nose
had been cut clean off.
534
00:31:53,141 --> 00:31:55,621
The breasts had also been cleanly
placed on a table.
535
00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,581
The stomach and the abdomen
had been ripped open.
536
00:31:57,741 --> 00:31:59,981
The kidneys and the heart
had also been removed.
537
00:32:00,141 --> 00:32:02,701
The liver had likewise been removed.
And laid on her right thigh.
538
00:32:02,861 --> 00:32:07,421
The uterus had been cut out.
And these appeared to be missing.
539
00:32:07,581 --> 00:32:09,901
The face was slashed about,
so that the features
540
00:32:10,061 --> 00:32:12,621
of the poor creature
were beyond all recognition.
541
00:32:15,581 --> 00:32:18,781
The clothes of the woman
were lying by the side of the bed,
542
00:32:18,941 --> 00:32:24,381
as though they had been taken off
and laid down in an ordinary manner.
543
00:32:27,221 --> 00:32:30,741
Her name was Mary Jane Kelly.
544
00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:34,101
She was 25 years old.
545
00:32:42,541 --> 00:32:45,101
- Warren has this woman's blood
on his hands.
546
00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:47,981
- Then do not hold back.
547
00:33:06,061 --> 00:33:07,101
And while you are at it,
548
00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:12,261
add that we're the highest selling
549
00:33:12,421 --> 00:33:14,301
evening paper in the country.
550
00:33:16,141 --> 00:33:17,541
- Really?
551
00:33:18,861 --> 00:33:20,421
It seems in poor taste.
552
00:33:22,301 --> 00:33:25,301
- No. It's a direct message
to Warren.
553
00:33:29,501 --> 00:33:30,661
He should know our reach.
554
00:33:31,741 --> 00:33:33,501
And he should fear our influence.
555
00:33:33,661 --> 00:33:35,381
- (dramatic music plays)
556
00:33:39,581 --> 00:33:41,501
- The Star had been putting
pressure on Warren
557
00:33:41,661 --> 00:33:43,381
in editorial after editorial.
558
00:33:45,221 --> 00:33:47,261
He failed to catch the killer
559
00:33:47,421 --> 00:33:50,781
and in the absence of a killer,
the press needed a victory.
560
00:33:52,501 --> 00:33:54,901
And in the end Warren
was the fall guy.
561
00:33:56,861 --> 00:33:59,101
- It's clear to me
that Commissioner Charles Warren
562
00:33:59,261 --> 00:34:02,341
didn't have the experience to lead
such a complex case.
563
00:34:04,981 --> 00:34:08,181
But The Star had been misdirecting
the investigation
564
00:34:08,341 --> 00:34:09,621
from the very start.
565
00:34:12,541 --> 00:34:16,061
T P O'Connor was just interested
in boosting sales of the newspaper.
566
00:34:17,501 --> 00:34:20,381
And humiliating Charles Warren
in the process.
567
00:34:21,221 --> 00:34:23,981
- Oh, how I have longed to write
this headline.
568
00:34:24,141 --> 00:34:25,141
Warren Gone!
569
00:34:25,301 --> 00:34:29,101
- (cheering, applause, laughter)
570
00:34:38,261 --> 00:34:39,901
- But no one has caught him though,
have they?
571
00:34:40,061 --> 00:34:41,941
- Oh, it's only a matter of time,
Fred.
572
00:34:42,101 --> 00:34:45,021
- Mmm. More time to catch a killer
573
00:34:46,661 --> 00:34:49,461
or more time to keep printing money,
hey, T P. Hmmm?
574
00:34:49,621 --> 00:34:51,701
(bangs table) My boy!
575
00:34:58,181 --> 00:35:00,861
- It seems like a good time for you
and me to have conversation, Fred.
576
00:35:01,021 --> 00:35:02,421
What do you think?
577
00:35:02,581 --> 00:35:04,381
- (percussive dramatic music plays)
578
00:35:13,941 --> 00:35:15,261
- (music drowns out speech)
579
00:35:16,301 --> 00:35:17,621
- (dramatic theme music plays)
580
00:35:21,421 --> 00:35:22,861
(dramatic theme music plays)
581
00:35:31,301 --> 00:35:32,301
- (groans)
582
00:35:34,381 --> 00:35:37,981
It appears you haven't been
in the best of spirits, Fred.
583
00:35:38,141 --> 00:35:39,141
Fair comment?
584
00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:44,661
- It's been the hardest story
of my career, Mr O'Connor.
585
00:35:44,821 --> 00:35:45,821
It's true.
586
00:35:47,061 --> 00:35:51,541
- Which is why what may appear
at first to be bad news,
587
00:35:51,701 --> 00:35:54,061
you might in time
become grateful for.
588
00:35:56,101 --> 00:35:57,941
- Are you terminating my position?
589
00:35:58,101 --> 00:36:01,901
- It has come to the attention
of Colman and Brunner
590
00:36:02,061 --> 00:36:05,181
that you were behind
the forged letters.
591
00:36:07,781 --> 00:36:11,661
- (scoffs) We all were.
- I know.
592
00:36:11,821 --> 00:36:14,381
But there is no sense in throwing
us all in the fire though,
593
00:36:14,541 --> 00:36:16,421
is there Fred? Huh?
594
00:36:17,901 --> 00:36:21,821
Look, I'm sorry, but you will just
have to take this one for the team.
595
00:36:22,861 --> 00:36:23,941
- (sombre music plays)
596
00:36:27,901 --> 00:36:29,501
- And I'll make sure
that when you are leaving
597
00:36:29,661 --> 00:36:31,621
that you get an excellent reference.
598
00:36:31,781 --> 00:36:34,741
And of course,
payment for your last article.
599
00:36:36,501 --> 00:36:39,981
- Hah! Last article.
- Yes. Thank you, Fred.
600
00:36:43,821 --> 00:36:44,821
Thank you.
601
00:36:52,341 --> 00:36:54,101
- (footsteps continue retreating)
602
00:36:56,861 --> 00:37:00,301
- I fully understand the pressures
that Fred was under.
603
00:37:03,181 --> 00:37:06,261
But you have a decision to make
as to whether or not
604
00:37:06,421 --> 00:37:07,421
you cross that line.
605
00:37:08,141 --> 00:37:13,701
Fred thought about this,
and he crossed that line.
606
00:37:15,781 --> 00:37:18,581
I don't think there
is any justification for that.
607
00:37:20,141 --> 00:37:25,181
So, I think Fred is just as
complicit as T P.
608
00:37:27,301 --> 00:37:31,181
- I think Fred Best knew he was
good at his job and storytelling.
609
00:37:33,341 --> 00:37:35,781
He contributed to this case
in such a profound way.
610
00:37:40,141 --> 00:37:42,461
And that was something
that he will have to live with
611
00:37:42,621 --> 00:37:43,901
for the rest of his life.
612
00:38:02,061 --> 00:38:08,061
- So, gentlemen,
I have big plans for this paper.
613
00:38:12,941 --> 00:38:13,941
Ah!
614
00:38:16,221 --> 00:38:20,821
So, have I unwittingly
been served my last supper?
615
00:38:23,621 --> 00:38:27,981
- Well, we've decided that you
must send in your resignation.
616
00:38:28,141 --> 00:38:30,181
- On what grounds?
617
00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:34,981
For taking a blank piece of paper
and turning it into a newssheet
618
00:38:35,141 --> 00:38:37,461
with the reach of 300,000 people?
619
00:38:37,621 --> 00:38:40,221
- But at what cost?
620
00:38:40,381 --> 00:38:43,341
- We now know that the directors
of The Star newspaper
621
00:38:43,501 --> 00:38:46,421
found out that their journalists
had been misleading
622
00:38:46,581 --> 00:38:47,901
the police investigation.
623
00:38:49,621 --> 00:38:51,741
Fred Best had already been
dismissed.
624
00:38:51,901 --> 00:38:54,661
But they now had to wash their hands
of T P.
625
00:38:57,661 --> 00:39:00,141
- T P instructed Fred to write
the letters.
626
00:39:00,301 --> 00:39:03,701
Then it is absolutely right
that he should also be let go.
627
00:39:03,861 --> 00:39:07,221
The buck shouldn't just
stop with the reporter, right.
628
00:39:07,381 --> 00:39:10,741
I think there is a real
responsibility sitting
629
00:39:10,901 --> 00:39:13,861
within those newspaper organisations
who took the decision
630
00:39:14,021 --> 00:39:17,341
to publish information
that they knew not to be true.
631
00:39:17,501 --> 00:39:18,941
- You have left us no option.
632
00:39:19,101 --> 00:39:20,581
- Fucking nonsense.
633
00:39:20,741 --> 00:39:24,221
It's the largest circulation
of any evening paper in the country.
634
00:39:26,221 --> 00:39:28,501
- We expect your resignation
by tomorrow morning.
635
00:39:36,181 --> 00:39:37,941
- I think T P
and The Star's reporting
636
00:39:38,101 --> 00:39:41,021
certainly heralded a new era
in journalism
637
00:39:41,181 --> 00:39:42,821
that didn't care about the facts.
638
00:39:42,981 --> 00:39:45,581
That cared about chasing
a sensational story.
639
00:39:45,741 --> 00:39:46,741
WOMAN: See you tomorrow.
640
00:39:46,901 --> 00:39:49,341
FERN: And not about the impact
on the lives of the people
641
00:39:49,501 --> 00:39:50,901
that it involved.
642
00:39:52,301 --> 00:39:57,861
- 11 women were murdered in
Whitechapel between 1888 and 1891.
643
00:39:58,941 --> 00:40:01,621
But only five of the victims
are generally agreed
644
00:40:01,781 --> 00:40:03,461
to be by the same killer,
645
00:40:03,621 --> 00:40:04,621
Jack the Ripper.
646
00:40:05,541 --> 00:40:08,421
With Mary Jane Kelly
thought to have been the last.
647
00:40:13,501 --> 00:40:17,141
Speculation as to Jack the Ripper's
identity has raged
648
00:40:17,301 --> 00:40:19,741
for almost 140 years.
649
00:40:20,621 --> 00:40:24,941
Notable suspects include
Walter Sickert, a famed artist,
650
00:40:26,381 --> 00:40:29,301
Dr Francis Tumblety,
an American herb doctor,
651
00:40:31,061 --> 00:40:34,941
and most recently Aaron Kosminski
a Polish barber.
652
00:40:35,861 --> 00:40:38,661
But the killer seemed to be able
to get away with his crimes
653
00:40:38,821 --> 00:40:42,261
in the middle of one of the most
packed cities in the world.
654
00:40:47,581 --> 00:40:49,381
The Star's handling of the story
655
00:40:49,541 --> 00:40:52,541
helped it become the biggest selling
newspaper in the country.
656
00:40:55,461 --> 00:40:57,381
- Well, for all of our sins,
657
00:40:59,981 --> 00:41:03,501
we shone a light on the destitute
when they were left
658
00:41:03,661 --> 00:41:07,341
by the establishment to suffer
in the darkness.
659
00:41:07,501 --> 00:41:08,861
And what's more,
660
00:41:11,421 --> 00:41:13,501
we fucking entertained them
as we did it.
661
00:41:13,661 --> 00:41:14,661
- (laughter)
662
00:41:17,381 --> 00:41:20,701
- But how much did the behaviour
of the journalists
663
00:41:20,861 --> 00:41:25,021
divert police resources, manpower,
664
00:41:25,181 --> 00:41:27,901
attention, time, hours
665
00:41:28,781 --> 00:41:31,101
away from looking for the killer?
666
00:41:31,261 --> 00:41:32,261
Jack the Ripper.
667
00:41:33,981 --> 00:41:37,061
And yet that's what still
all these years later
668
00:41:37,221 --> 00:41:39,061
stays in the public conscience.
669
00:41:40,061 --> 00:41:43,621
I honestly, genuinely think
it comes down to the name.
670
00:41:43,781 --> 00:41:45,261
Such a simple thing, isn't it?
671
00:41:46,301 --> 00:41:49,701
Giving a killer or a case a name.
672
00:41:52,701 --> 00:41:54,741
People remember Jack the Ripper.
673
00:41:57,541 --> 00:42:01,541
- The name Jack the Ripper
is something that was given to us
674
00:42:01,701 --> 00:42:04,981
by a group of men
who were trying to make money.
675
00:42:05,141 --> 00:42:10,941
And we lose sight of that, and we
lose sight of the women themselves
676
00:42:11,101 --> 00:42:13,741
because we want to be scared
of the monster.
677
00:42:19,021 --> 00:42:21,981
- I think the press of the day
were entirely complicit
678
00:42:22,141 --> 00:42:25,301
in turning the whole thing
from a tragedy
679
00:42:25,461 --> 00:42:28,621
into a highly entertaining fiasco.
680
00:42:35,781 --> 00:42:36,781
- Let's go.
681
00:42:36,941 --> 00:42:40,301
- They did that for their own ends.
For their own careers.
682
00:42:40,461 --> 00:42:45,901
And they did it entirely I would say
without a wit of compassion
683
00:42:46,061 --> 00:42:47,301
for the women involved.
684
00:42:47,461 --> 00:42:49,501
And not only the women who had
already been killed
685
00:42:49,661 --> 00:42:51,581
but the women
who were sure to be killed.
686
00:42:54,101 --> 00:42:55,541
- (typewriter keys clacking)
687
00:43:24,061 --> 00:43:25,061
- (choir ahhs)
688
00:44:02,981 --> 00:44:07,101
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