Alayna Urquhart
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The shocking crimes of Jack the Ripper started dominating the American headlines, too.
And by the early 1900s, Jack the Ripper had become kind of a household name.
And the concept was looming pretty large in the minds of a lot of people.
A lot of readers were fascinated by this mystery or just terrified by the brutality of the whole thing.
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.
But Jack the Ripper's victims were believed to be, like we know, sex workers.
And believed to be what people called women of very low social status.
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
But go back to the Tobias Forge episode when we talk about skeleta.