Jack the Ripper: Lucy Worsley Investigates

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Saturday, January 11 03:20 ‧ 1u

True crime is often thought of as a recent obsession, but here, Lucy Worsley investigates the phenomenon through one of the world’s most infamous serial killers: Jack the Ripper. She uncovers a story which goes beyond a single murderer and his five victims – Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane - to a burgeoning newspaper industry desperate for readers and a Victorian society that wasn’t designed to support the most vulnerable. Lucy explores how this unsolved case fuelled a new sensationalist journalism, which set a template for many of the true crime stories that followed.