Hallie Rubenhold

And when that got so bad, you might go to the casual ward.

And that was so bad that you might take your chances, you know, and you were desperate to find work and maybe you managed to do a day's work.

And then you could spend a night or two in a lodging house.

And then you were out on the street again and you were begging and pawning whatever you had.

And it was a complete hand-to-mouth existence, hour by hour, day by day,

And literally thousands and thousands of people live this way.

And caught up in this were Polly Nichols, who spent some time living on the street and also bouncing between the casual wards and lodging houses.

And Annie Chapman, the second victim as well, who spent time living in lodging houses but didn't have the money for a lodging house every night and sometimes spent the night on the street.

Elizabeth Stride.

who spent time in lodging houses.

She was picked up for vagrancy once.

So she had spent time on the street.

And Catherine Eddowes, who had led an almost sort of gypsy life since her, really, her very early 20s, when she met up with her partner, Thomas Conway, and they traveled the country as ballad sellers.

And so, you know, this was her life, was basically living rough.

And so this, this

Bit of the story has been left out because these women's circumstances have never been examined.

And the so-called facts of their life, as put forward by Ripperology, have never really been questioned.

You know, there's a lot of talk about facts in Ripperology.

But it's questionable, you know, where these facts come from.

That's right.