Episode Revisit- Jack the Ripper (Parts 1-5)

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:00)
Hey, Weirdos, I'm Ash.

**Ash Kelley** (0:02)
And I'm Alaina.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:03)
And this is Morbid.

**Ash Kelley** (0:30)
It is Morbid and it's gonna get really Morbid in here today.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:34)
See, I like to do the Hey Weirdos especially now because we were saying it, I think, last episode. Whenever, like, you finish saying, and this is Morbid, and then I have to comment, I'm like, it is.

**Ash Kelley** (0:46)
Every time, it is.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:47)
We're both like, yeah, it is.

**Ash Kelley** (0:49)
That's all I gotta say. But today, it really is because we are starting what is going to be a four-part series on Jack the Ripper.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:01)
All right, wait, four-part series?

**Ash Kelley** (1:06)
So, you know me. You know Alaina's relationship with Brevity. You know me. This case just sucks to me right in. I have about five or six books to share with you guys already, and I'm not even done.
I'm going to try to keep it to four just so that you don't get an entire month of Jack the Ripper, which I don't know if anybody would be down for. I could do an entire season about this if I really wanted to.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:37)
I feel like some people would definitely be down, but I think my psyche and others who share the psyche that I have would be like, please stop trying to break me physically and mentally.

**Ash Kelley** (1:48)
And I feel like Albert Fish was four. Everybody reached their breaking point at that point, I think, and it was a nice reprieve when it was done.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:55)
Four for these ones is the sweet spot. So with that being said, are you just gonna yeet yourself right into it?

**Ash Kelley** (2:01)
Yeah, we're gonna yeet right into it. It's the first one.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:04)
Have you ever even said yeet before? Hold on a second.

**Ash Kelley** (2:07)
Have I? I feel like I have.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:08)
I feel as though I've never felt this much happiness in my life though.

**Ash Kelley** (2:11)
Wow.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:12)
I don't think you've said yeet before.

**Ash Kelley** (2:13)
I don't know. Let us know. Have I said yeet before?

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:15)
Well, I feel alive, so let's go.

**Ash Kelley** (2:17)
Whatever I can do to make you happy, you know?

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:19)
Yeah, now we get into this.

**Ash Kelley** (2:21)
Well, I know, I was gonna say, sorry about what's coming next.
I just wanna mention a few of the books that I have used for this series so far. I'm sure to be adding more by the fourth one, by the fourth episode, but I will let you know when there's other ones. You're a psychopath. These are really good books. You can get them on the Kindle. Are you old? Yeah, you know? The Kindle. The Kindle app.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:46)
Get them on the Kindle Cloud Reader.

**Ash Kelley** (2:48)
Whatever, man. You can get them on your old screen.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:52)
Get them on the internet, and then get off my lawn.

**Ash Kelley** (2:55)
Get them on the World Wide Web. So the first one is Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yards Prime Suspect by Robert House. Okay. The second one is The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims by Robert Hume. That's a good one because it really focuses on the victims. The third one, which I think right now is my favorite comprehensive look at the case, is The Complete Jack the Ripper, and that's by Donald Rumbelow.
And then we have The Five, which is a really good book and a really interesting one because it's another one that really focuses on the victims.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:33)
Nice.

**Ash Kelley** (3:34)
Their stories, you can get a lot of background. It's by Haley Rubenhold. She does an amazing job.
And the next one I'm going to talk about, the last one for now is called The Ripper Code by Thomas Tuffill, I believe it is, Tuffill. They're all really great. They all give different point of views. They all give really comprehensive looks at all the evidence, and they're fascinating, and I think you should read them, but I will link them all.

**Alaina Urquhart** (4:01)
Cool.

**Ash Kelley** (4:02)
And again, I'm going to be adding to that list, so stay tuned for that. So what we're going to do with this episode is I want to talk to you about Whitechapel, the stand at the time, which is in the late 1880s. We're going to talk about workhouses because a lot of these women were spending a lot of their time in workhouses, and it gets mentioned a lot, and you should know what those are. We're going to talk about the first victim. We're going to be talking about Marianne Nichols, or Polly Nichols as she was known. We're going to talk about some of the victims that they thought are still thought to this day, although I don't really think so. They thought may have been pre-Ripper victims, like pre what they call the canonical five, which are the ones that most people know their names.