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Alayna Urquhart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
875 total appearances

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Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

We know Jack.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

The shocking crimes of Jack the Ripper started dominating the American headlines, too.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

And by the early 1900s, Jack the Ripper had become kind of a household name.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

And the concept was looming pretty large in the minds of a lot of people.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

A lot of readers were fascinated by this mystery or just terrified by the brutality of the whole thing.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

And it's unlikely that many of them recognize the role that, like, class stratification and racial tensions were going to have in this whole thing.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

But Jack the Ripper's victims were believed to be, like we know, sex workers.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

That was their occupation.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

And believed to be what people called women of very low social status.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

that was the big class thing women that i'm sure jack the ripper assumed would be missed by very few people um and it's a population of women who were frequently victimized um and rarely saw justice out of it and in simple terms one of the reasons that jack the ripper's identity still remains a mystery to this day it is still a fucking mystery

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

And that's not a bad thing.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

No, it's not.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

But go back to the Tobias Forge episode when we talk about skeleta.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

Or the Aliza one.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

Or the Aliza Kelly one.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

We put it in there too.

Morbid
The Atlanta Ripper

Either one of those.