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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,901 --> 00:00:04,061 - (dramatic music playing) 2 00:00:12,861 --> 00:00:17,941 FRED: The savage slaying of two women in one night. 3 00:00:18,101 --> 00:00:19,301 - (overlapping chatter) 4 00:00:21,781 --> 00:00:23,621 - Jesus Christ! 5 00:00:23,781 --> 00:00:25,221 Had the whole country hooked. 6 00:00:26,741 --> 00:00:27,981 - Read all about it. 7 00:00:29,541 --> 00:00:32,341 - My job, to report every lurid detail 8 00:00:32,501 --> 00:00:34,301 of the killer's macabre crimes. 9 00:00:34,461 --> 00:00:37,141 Heart, liver, intestines, all removed. 10 00:00:38,221 --> 00:00:40,021 - Come see the body! 11 00:00:41,501 --> 00:00:44,461 FRED: And keep the public royally entertained. 12 00:00:44,621 --> 00:00:46,941 - Words have power, Fred, now more than ever. 13 00:00:48,061 --> 00:00:49,541 - And our plan was working. 14 00:00:49,701 --> 00:00:50,701 We've sold out. 15 00:00:50,861 --> 00:00:53,781 - Then start another print job (laughs). 16 00:00:53,941 --> 00:00:56,821 FRED: Circulation of The Star was increasing by the day. 17 00:00:56,981 --> 00:00:58,821 O'CONNOR: To The Star! ALL: To The Star. 18 00:00:58,981 --> 00:01:03,781 FRED: And my boss T P had no intention of letting the story die. 19 00:01:04,901 --> 00:01:06,021 - Can you make him speak? 20 00:01:06,181 --> 00:01:10,181 FRANK: Even if it meant falsifying evidence. 21 00:01:10,341 --> 00:01:12,501 ABBERLINE: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper. 22 00:01:12,661 --> 00:01:14,981 FRED: But how far would he take it? 23 00:01:15,141 --> 00:01:18,461 - Let's keep the letter out of the public domain for now. 24 00:01:18,621 --> 00:01:20,901 FRED: And at what cost to others? 25 00:01:21,061 --> 00:01:24,341 - You can tell Fred he needs to write another letter. 26 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:25,501 (laughs) 27 00:01:27,021 --> 00:01:29,861 - (thunder crashes) 28 00:01:30,021 --> 00:01:31,821 - (theme music plays) - (keyboard keys clack) 29 00:01:55,381 --> 00:01:56,381 - (street hum) 30 00:02:01,581 --> 00:02:02,661 - (gentle music plays) 31 00:02:07,701 --> 00:02:11,541 O'CONNOR: You can tell Fred he needs to write another letter. 32 00:02:11,701 --> 00:02:12,701 - (pen scribbles) 33 00:02:14,101 --> 00:02:15,421 FRED: I was not coddling dear old Boss 34 00:02:15,581 --> 00:02:16,661 when I gave you the tip. 35 00:02:18,501 --> 00:02:20,821 You'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work tomorrow. 36 00:02:23,381 --> 00:02:26,301 - If this was a Hollywood movie... 37 00:02:27,261 --> 00:02:31,381 isn't it genius that the crime reporter writes the letter 38 00:02:31,541 --> 00:02:34,861 that fuels the story that guarantees him a next shift. 39 00:02:35,021 --> 00:02:36,421 But it isn't. 40 00:02:38,861 --> 00:02:41,301 FRED: Double event this time. 41 00:02:41,461 --> 00:02:44,341 Number one squealed a bit, couldn't finish it off. 42 00:02:44,501 --> 00:02:47,101 Had no time to get ear off for police. 43 00:02:47,261 --> 00:02:51,541 Thanks for keeping the last letter back until I got to work again. 44 00:02:53,381 --> 00:02:54,381 Jack the Ripper. 45 00:02:55,261 --> 00:02:57,541 - I can't imagine what it would have been like 46 00:02:57,701 --> 00:03:01,341 for Fred to be sitting there being put under that pressure. 47 00:03:01,501 --> 00:03:03,101 How do you say no to that? 48 00:03:04,261 --> 00:03:07,181 Because you know that just over the shoulder is another journalist 49 00:03:07,341 --> 00:03:08,341 who will say, yes. 50 00:03:09,421 --> 00:03:12,141 - It's quite an extraordinary thing for Fred to have done. 51 00:03:12,301 --> 00:03:16,301 To try and get inside the mind of a crazed killer like this. 52 00:03:16,461 --> 00:03:18,901 To try and imagine the kind of language he would have used. 53 00:03:19,061 --> 00:03:21,941 But of course he would have had to do that to make it convincing 54 00:03:22,101 --> 00:03:25,661 and to make it sensational enough to sell newspapers. 55 00:03:26,981 --> 00:03:27,981 - You're back early. 56 00:03:29,301 --> 00:03:30,581 - Yeah. Not stopping. 57 00:03:30,741 --> 00:03:31,741 - What's all that? 58 00:03:32,701 --> 00:03:34,301 - Nothing just notes. 59 00:03:35,501 --> 00:03:38,381 - You know I heard he struck twice in one night. Is that true? 60 00:03:38,541 --> 00:03:40,741 - Yeah, it's true. So, stay home tonight, will you? 61 00:03:41,621 --> 00:03:43,301 - Where, where are you going? 62 00:03:43,461 --> 00:03:45,061 FRED: Off to work. 63 00:03:45,221 --> 00:03:46,301 - (door shuts) 64 00:03:46,461 --> 00:03:47,461 - For God's sake! 65 00:03:52,421 --> 00:03:54,341 - (tense music plays) 66 00:03:54,501 --> 00:03:57,821 - The next communication received at the Central News Agency 67 00:03:57,981 --> 00:04:00,261 purporting to be from Jack the Ripper, 68 00:04:00,421 --> 00:04:03,461 became known as the Saucy Jack postcard. 69 00:04:03,621 --> 00:04:09,621 And in there the alleged killer writes about 70 00:04:09,781 --> 00:04:11,221 killing two victims. 71 00:04:12,261 --> 00:04:14,501 So, this leads off from the double event murders 72 00:04:14,661 --> 00:04:16,621 of Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes. 73 00:04:18,421 --> 00:04:20,141 - The Saucy Jack postcard is really interesting 74 00:04:20,301 --> 00:04:22,221 because it follows the same language and terminology 75 00:04:22,381 --> 00:04:23,861 of the Dear Boss letter. 76 00:04:25,141 --> 00:04:26,501 They feel very similar; 77 00:04:26,661 --> 00:04:28,621 they sound like they are by the same person. 78 00:04:29,981 --> 00:04:32,181 FRED: Double event this time, number one squealed a bit, 79 00:04:32,341 --> 00:04:33,501 couldn't finish it off. 80 00:04:35,421 --> 00:04:37,501 - Because of how quickly the second letter arrives 81 00:04:37,661 --> 00:04:40,341 at the Central News Agency and because it had such detailed 82 00:04:40,501 --> 00:04:43,621 knowledge of the murders, people felt these letters 83 00:04:43,781 --> 00:04:47,461 couldn't be written by anyone else other than the person responsible. 84 00:04:47,621 --> 00:04:50,621 In recent history the handwriting was analysed, 85 00:04:50,781 --> 00:04:53,341 and it found that not only did those letters match 86 00:04:53,501 --> 00:04:55,301 and that they were by the same author. 87 00:04:58,581 --> 00:05:01,061 That author was most likely Fred Best. 88 00:05:01,221 --> 00:05:03,221 MAN: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper. 89 00:05:03,381 --> 00:05:04,381 - (dramatic music plays) 90 00:05:09,061 --> 00:05:11,261 - T P, I have just been having lunch with an old colleague 91 00:05:11,421 --> 00:05:12,421 from The Daily News. 92 00:05:13,661 --> 00:05:15,501 They are publishing the letters. 93 00:05:15,661 --> 00:05:18,701 And we can get the story out too by fifth edition if we start now. 94 00:05:19,941 --> 00:05:22,741 FRED: Yes. ERNEST: Come on, Fred. 95 00:05:24,381 --> 00:05:25,821 - Wait! 96 00:05:29,101 --> 00:05:30,741 What if we spike their guns? 97 00:05:30,901 --> 00:05:32,421 - How? They are already going to print. 98 00:05:32,581 --> 00:05:33,981 It will be out by tomorrow. 99 00:05:34,141 --> 00:05:36,781 - Well, they think they have got the real thing already, don't they? 100 00:05:36,941 --> 00:05:39,621 What about instead of trying to get it out ahead we make it 101 00:05:39,781 --> 00:05:43,061 known that these letters are almost certainly a hoax. 102 00:05:44,061 --> 00:05:46,221 - Undermine the exclusive. - (light thud of filing cabinets) 103 00:05:46,381 --> 00:05:48,821 ERNEST: Genius! O'CONNOR: Get to it! 104 00:05:51,981 --> 00:05:53,541 - I think this is very much an attempt 105 00:05:53,701 --> 00:05:56,501 to kind of throw anyone else off the scent. 106 00:05:59,141 --> 00:06:01,421 It's incredibly confusing if you think The Star 107 00:06:01,581 --> 00:06:03,021 is responsible for these letters. 108 00:06:04,261 --> 00:06:06,141 For this invention of Jack the Ripper. 109 00:06:07,261 --> 00:06:10,621 - (typewriter keys clanging) - (laughs) 110 00:06:10,781 --> 00:06:14,541 - And The Star was one of the first papers to break the news. 111 00:06:20,501 --> 00:06:22,101 - (O'Connor continues laughing) 112 00:06:22,261 --> 00:06:23,541 - (dramatic music playing) 113 00:06:27,901 --> 00:06:31,421 - On October 1st the world learns the name Jack the Ripper. 114 00:06:33,301 --> 00:06:35,701 So, it would have been a really explosive moment. 115 00:06:36,621 --> 00:06:37,621 - What a name! 116 00:06:38,821 --> 00:06:42,861 Horrific, brutal, torturous violence 117 00:06:43,021 --> 00:06:44,861 of the worst kind. 118 00:06:47,261 --> 00:06:49,501 I mean it sells itself, that's why tabloids love it. 119 00:06:50,541 --> 00:06:51,741 NEWSPAPER BOY: Read all about it! 120 00:06:51,901 --> 00:06:53,061 - (street hum) 121 00:06:57,701 --> 00:06:59,141 - (gentle music plays) 122 00:07:00,461 --> 00:07:02,821 - The decision to release the letters to the press 123 00:07:02,981 --> 00:07:05,341 came from the commissioner of the police, Charles Warren 124 00:07:05,501 --> 00:07:07,621 and lead investigator Frederick Abberline. 125 00:07:08,541 --> 00:07:10,821 MAN: I keep on hearing the police have caught me. 126 00:07:10,981 --> 00:07:13,901 I am down on whores, and I shan't quit. 127 00:07:15,221 --> 00:07:18,341 - They now had two letters from a Jack the Ripper, 128 00:07:18,501 --> 00:07:20,941 who seemed to have inside knowledge of the crimes. 129 00:07:22,461 --> 00:07:24,181 Even if there was a 5% chance that these letters 130 00:07:24,341 --> 00:07:29,541 were written by the killer, you still had to try and see 131 00:07:29,701 --> 00:07:33,421 if there was anybody that could recognise this handwriting. 132 00:07:33,581 --> 00:07:36,341 Anybody that could recognise the words that were being used. 133 00:07:36,501 --> 00:07:39,301 Is there a pattern in speech that might spark someone 134 00:07:39,461 --> 00:07:42,861 if they are close to you, your husband, your brother, your son. 135 00:07:43,021 --> 00:07:46,181 MAN: You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. 136 00:07:46,341 --> 00:07:48,741 - Even if they thought it was the longest shot in the world, 137 00:07:48,901 --> 00:07:51,381 they had to take it, because let's be honest, 138 00:07:51,541 --> 00:07:53,661 they didn't have an awful lot to go on. 139 00:07:53,821 --> 00:07:54,821 - (office hum) 140 00:07:58,501 --> 00:07:59,541 SGT THICK: Sir! 141 00:08:05,101 --> 00:08:08,501 - Well, if this truly is the work of The Ripper 142 00:08:08,661 --> 00:08:10,861 perhaps he's just made his first mistake. 143 00:08:11,021 --> 00:08:12,501 - Well, how so? 144 00:08:12,661 --> 00:08:13,981 - I had a school master who used to say, 145 00:08:14,141 --> 00:08:16,461 he could tell us each apart by the curves of our written work. 146 00:08:18,621 --> 00:08:21,021 He said handwriting was unique to every one of us. 147 00:08:22,541 --> 00:08:24,301 We need to get these letters out there. 148 00:08:24,461 --> 00:08:25,941 - Well, they are in all the papers already. 149 00:08:26,101 --> 00:08:29,221 - That may be but these letters deserve a broader reach. 150 00:08:29,381 --> 00:08:31,701 Have them made up as posters and put up all over London. 151 00:08:31,861 --> 00:08:32,941 - Yes, sir. 152 00:08:33,101 --> 00:08:36,221 - If someone recognises his handwriting, 153 00:08:36,381 --> 00:08:38,821 then old Jack here might just have signed his own death warrant. 154 00:08:38,981 --> 00:08:40,021 - (tense music plays) 155 00:08:43,341 --> 00:08:45,661 - This was a potential line of enquiry 156 00:08:45,821 --> 00:08:49,141 that could have led them to the person they were looking for. 157 00:08:49,301 --> 00:08:54,461 But The Star was deliberately misleading the enquiry. 158 00:08:55,581 --> 00:08:58,061 - The Star is the only paper to say, 159 00:08:59,661 --> 00:09:01,261 "But this is all a hoax." 160 00:09:02,301 --> 00:09:05,341 - And they accused all the other papers of being duped by it, 161 00:09:05,501 --> 00:09:06,501 of being fools. 162 00:09:06,661 --> 00:09:10,541 Only The Star is wise enough to see this for what it really is. 163 00:09:12,381 --> 00:09:15,661 - Not only have they created this monster Jack the Ripper. 164 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:18,021 But they are now going to expose everyone else 165 00:09:18,181 --> 00:09:22,621 as falling for hysteria and mob panic that they have created. 166 00:09:22,781 --> 00:09:24,101 - (music drowns out speech) 167 00:09:25,941 --> 00:09:27,261 - (dramatic theme music plays) 168 00:09:31,301 --> 00:09:32,741 (dramatic theme music plays) 169 00:09:37,941 --> 00:09:39,021 - (dramatic music playing) 170 00:09:59,061 --> 00:10:01,621 - Hen, listen, please, let me, let me explain. 171 00:10:03,261 --> 00:10:05,021 - What the hell have you done? 172 00:10:05,181 --> 00:10:07,341 What! I know you are lying to me because I saw that you wrote it. 173 00:10:07,501 --> 00:10:08,581 You signed it Jack the Ripper. 174 00:10:08,741 --> 00:10:10,061 - Don't say Jack the Ripper out loud. 175 00:10:10,221 --> 00:10:12,581 You know I am not a killer, you know I am not Jack. 176 00:10:12,741 --> 00:10:14,021 - Well then why would you write it? 177 00:10:14,181 --> 00:10:15,621 - It was only meant to be a bit of fun. 178 00:10:15,781 --> 00:10:17,661 T P, you know, he said, hold the public's imagination. 179 00:10:17,821 --> 00:10:19,021 Keep the story ticking over. 180 00:10:19,181 --> 00:10:21,541 - Have you lost your mind? 181 00:10:21,701 --> 00:10:22,861 - I don't know. 182 00:10:23,021 --> 00:10:25,381 - You do realise if they find out it was you, you are a dead man. 183 00:10:25,541 --> 00:10:27,781 They will hang you Fred, no questions asked. 184 00:10:27,941 --> 00:10:29,741 FRED: Hen, wait! 185 00:10:29,901 --> 00:10:35,461 - Fred's letters for the real killer were an absolute gift. 186 00:10:36,701 --> 00:10:39,301 Because police started to focus resources, manpower, 187 00:10:39,461 --> 00:10:42,141 into the details that are in those letters 188 00:10:43,221 --> 00:10:46,221 while the killer is able to continue with impunity. 189 00:10:46,381 --> 00:10:47,541 - (horse clip clopping) 190 00:10:48,461 --> 00:10:51,381 - Exclusive! Jack the Ripper's bloody joke. 191 00:10:51,541 --> 00:10:53,981 Read all about it. 192 00:10:54,141 --> 00:10:57,661 Exclusive! Jack the Ripper's bloody joke. Read all about it. 193 00:10:57,821 --> 00:10:59,261 - Mrs O'Connor. 194 00:10:59,421 --> 00:11:01,021 - Oh, I recognise you. 195 00:11:01,181 --> 00:11:02,941 - I am Henrietta Best. 196 00:11:03,101 --> 00:11:05,541 My husband works for your husband here at The Star. 197 00:11:06,461 --> 00:11:07,781 Well, all hours God sends. 198 00:11:07,941 --> 00:11:08,941 - Yes. (laughs) 199 00:11:09,101 --> 00:11:11,301 It's become an obsession. - Mmm. 200 00:11:12,701 --> 00:11:15,781 It's funny, isn't it, that the more of these women die, 201 00:11:15,941 --> 00:11:17,861 the more alive they all seem. 202 00:11:18,021 --> 00:11:21,221 - The Ripper thirsts for blood and they thirst for what? 203 00:11:21,381 --> 00:11:22,541 - Money? 204 00:11:24,061 --> 00:11:25,421 - I think it's more than that. 205 00:11:26,421 --> 00:11:31,621 They are captivated by the hunt. The clarion call for their quarry. 206 00:11:31,781 --> 00:11:34,021 - Wow! It sounds like you should be the writer. 207 00:11:34,181 --> 00:11:38,861 - I am. But sadly they are not interested in a woman's opinion. 208 00:11:39,021 --> 00:11:42,741 I am consigned to the society pages for now. 209 00:11:43,861 --> 00:11:44,901 - Oh, that's a shame. 210 00:11:46,501 --> 00:11:51,621 - I think that there's a clear misogynistic element 211 00:11:51,781 --> 00:11:53,301 to The Ripper murders. 212 00:11:55,261 --> 00:11:56,781 And The Ripper himself. 213 00:11:56,941 --> 00:12:01,981 As if he was some kind of entertaining anti-hero. 214 00:12:03,301 --> 00:12:07,701 If Jack the Ripper had murdered vulnerable young men and boys, 215 00:12:07,861 --> 00:12:12,341 would we have Jack the Ripper memorabilia on sale today? 216 00:12:12,501 --> 00:12:14,341 I very much doubt that. 217 00:12:21,381 --> 00:12:22,421 - (door opens) 218 00:12:22,581 --> 00:12:25,941 - (footsteps approach) O'CONNOR: Elizabeth, I... 219 00:12:26,101 --> 00:12:27,781 - (door closes) O'CONNOR: I wasn't sure that you 220 00:12:27,941 --> 00:12:29,101 would be home this evening. 221 00:12:30,621 --> 00:12:32,101 - Really? 222 00:12:32,261 --> 00:12:33,661 With a maniac on the loose you thought 223 00:12:33,821 --> 00:12:36,381 I might be out for an evening stroll, darling? 224 00:12:36,541 --> 00:12:39,221 - (footsteps continue, liquid pours) 225 00:12:39,381 --> 00:12:43,141 ELIZABETH: I saw Fred Best's wife today. She seemed worried 226 00:12:43,301 --> 00:12:44,501 about her husband. 227 00:12:44,661 --> 00:12:48,781 - Oh, Fred. Ha! Is he being scolded for being late out at play? 228 00:12:49,901 --> 00:12:51,381 - (dramatic music plays) 229 00:12:52,501 --> 00:12:55,541 - Is that what this is for you? 230 00:12:55,701 --> 00:12:56,701 Play? 231 00:12:56,861 --> 00:12:59,501 One big game of hide and seek? 232 00:12:59,661 --> 00:13:01,701 - Well, at least we're trying to find him. 233 00:13:01,861 --> 00:13:04,501 It's a lot more than can be said for The Met. 234 00:13:04,661 --> 00:13:07,061 - I don't think anyone's really trying to find him. 235 00:13:07,221 --> 00:13:09,901 Because I don't think anyone really cares. 236 00:13:10,061 --> 00:13:12,381 O'CONNOR: Oh, come on. - If it was distinguished gentlemen 237 00:13:12,541 --> 00:13:14,901 being slaughtered in the streets or politicians, 238 00:13:15,061 --> 00:13:16,861 do you not think they would have found him by now? 239 00:13:17,021 --> 00:13:21,501 - But it isn't. - (dramatic music intensifies) 240 00:13:21,661 --> 00:13:22,661 - No. 241 00:13:24,501 --> 00:13:29,621 No, it's just some unfortunate women and no one cares about them. 242 00:13:29,781 --> 00:13:33,341 Not the police, not the politicians, no one. 243 00:13:33,501 --> 00:13:36,301 It is women who are being slaughtered 244 00:13:36,461 --> 00:13:39,061 and it's women who pay the price in constant fear 245 00:13:39,221 --> 00:13:40,621 and curtailed freedoms. 246 00:13:40,781 --> 00:13:42,181 - They will find him, Elizabeth. 247 00:13:42,341 --> 00:13:46,541 And until they do, we will hold to account those responsible 248 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,301 for letting him get away with it. 249 00:13:49,421 --> 00:13:51,181 That if nothing else, I promise you. 250 00:13:54,381 --> 00:13:58,621 - By this point in the investigation there's a huge climate of distrust 251 00:13:58,781 --> 00:13:59,941 of the police. 252 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:04,501 The press is targeting Charles Warren. 253 00:14:04,661 --> 00:14:07,381 And the situation feels incredibly unstable. 254 00:14:08,861 --> 00:14:10,821 NEWSPAPER BOY: Killer stalking the streets of London. 255 00:14:10,981 --> 00:14:12,101 Get your copy of The Star! 256 00:14:13,061 --> 00:14:14,461 - T P! 257 00:14:14,621 --> 00:14:16,061 - What? - I have just been speaking to 258 00:14:16,221 --> 00:14:17,861 a copper at Catherine Eddowes funeral. 259 00:14:18,021 --> 00:14:20,501 He told me exactly why Warren was at the crime scene at 05:00AM. 260 00:14:20,661 --> 00:14:22,501 - (street hum) 261 00:14:22,661 --> 00:14:25,141 - A message had been written on the wall in chalk. 262 00:14:25,301 --> 00:14:27,181 They think it is from the actual Ripper. 263 00:14:28,141 --> 00:14:29,141 - That's extraordinary. 264 00:14:29,301 --> 00:14:34,101 - What's more extraordinary is that Warren had them wash it off. 265 00:14:34,261 --> 00:14:35,701 ERNEST: No! 266 00:14:35,861 --> 00:14:37,821 FRED: He didn't want anyone to see it. 267 00:14:37,981 --> 00:14:38,981 - What did it say? 268 00:14:42,621 --> 00:14:46,341 - The Jews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing. 269 00:14:47,381 --> 00:14:49,501 - What the hell is Warren thinking? 270 00:14:49,661 --> 00:14:51,781 There has been so little genuine evidence to go on. 271 00:14:51,941 --> 00:14:55,381 What would possess the man to get rid of the one real piece he finds? 272 00:14:56,461 --> 00:14:58,461 - It makes no sense. 273 00:14:58,621 --> 00:15:01,301 - When Charles Warren made the decision that this graffiti 274 00:15:01,461 --> 00:15:03,341 should be washed down... 275 00:15:04,901 --> 00:15:10,341 his motivations for doing so was that it had antisemitic connotations 276 00:15:10,501 --> 00:15:12,901 in a predominantly Jewish area. 277 00:15:14,101 --> 00:15:18,301 And that was made more difficult by some of the irresponsible reporting 278 00:15:18,461 --> 00:15:19,901 that was going on in the press. 279 00:15:20,861 --> 00:15:24,461 On the potential that our killer was of Jewish heritage, 280 00:15:25,661 --> 00:15:29,221 Warren's motivations were one of public order. 281 00:15:29,381 --> 00:15:34,061 When what there should have been, is one of evidence gathering. 282 00:15:34,221 --> 00:15:36,621 - T P O'Connor definitely has a personal axe to grind 283 00:15:36,781 --> 00:15:37,861 with Charles Warren. 284 00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,181 This is the man who is the Head of The Met. 285 00:15:40,341 --> 00:15:43,341 And he becomes the figurehead for a lot of people 286 00:15:43,501 --> 00:15:45,501 as the only person left to blame. 287 00:15:46,261 --> 00:15:48,021 - This is it. 288 00:15:48,181 --> 00:15:50,181 This is the story we could take him down with. 289 00:15:51,981 --> 00:15:53,021 Write it! 290 00:15:53,181 --> 00:15:54,381 - (dramatic music plays) 291 00:16:00,861 --> 00:16:02,581 - T P already had it in for Warren 292 00:16:02,741 --> 00:16:04,981 long before The Ripper murders started. 293 00:16:06,061 --> 00:16:09,061 The previous year, before The Star was launched in 1887, 294 00:16:09,221 --> 00:16:12,221 there had been a great gathering of socialist demonstrators 295 00:16:12,381 --> 00:16:13,461 in Trafalgar Square. 296 00:16:15,501 --> 00:16:18,581 FERN: They were for people who desperately wanted to see a free 297 00:16:18,741 --> 00:16:20,901 Ireland and the English out. 298 00:16:21,541 --> 00:16:24,381 But the police presence had been very heavy handed, 299 00:16:24,541 --> 00:16:25,701 and two people had died. 300 00:16:29,301 --> 00:16:33,461 As a staunch supporter of home rule and a free Ireland, 301 00:16:33,621 --> 00:16:35,901 T P is never going to forgive Charles Warren. 302 00:16:36,061 --> 00:16:37,701 He is always going to want to make him pay. 303 00:16:41,301 --> 00:16:42,301 - (dog barks) 304 00:16:45,781 --> 00:16:50,141 STEVE: By October 1888, there had been dozens of reported instances... 305 00:16:50,301 --> 00:16:51,301 - (knocking on door) 306 00:16:51,461 --> 00:16:53,781 STEVE: ..where supposedly Jack the Ripper had contacted 307 00:16:53,941 --> 00:16:55,181 members of the public. 308 00:16:55,341 --> 00:16:56,741 - (door creaks open) 309 00:16:56,901 --> 00:16:59,461 - But the most shocking arrived at the home 310 00:16:59,621 --> 00:17:01,901 of the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, 311 00:17:04,101 --> 00:17:05,101 George Lusk. 312 00:17:08,821 --> 00:17:10,381 - So, George Lusk is a local businessman 313 00:17:10,541 --> 00:17:13,061 and he setup the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee 314 00:17:13,221 --> 00:17:15,501 to among other things patrol the streets 315 00:17:15,661 --> 00:17:17,141 and try and make them safer for women. 316 00:17:22,261 --> 00:17:23,541 - (knife gently taps down on table) 317 00:17:33,981 --> 00:17:35,021 - (tense music plays) 318 00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:43,261 - (retches) 319 00:17:46,461 --> 00:17:49,261 - People had received letters supposedly from the killer already. 320 00:17:49,421 --> 00:17:53,341 But this time it was accompanied by what seemed to be a human kidney. 321 00:17:53,501 --> 00:17:54,741 - (continues retching) 322 00:17:59,541 --> 00:18:03,861 - It's very easy to write a letter to purport to be from a killer 323 00:18:04,021 --> 00:18:06,461 claiming that you have knowledge of the crimes. 324 00:18:08,541 --> 00:18:10,541 But where do you get a piece of human kidney from? 325 00:18:16,061 --> 00:18:17,381 - From hell. 326 00:18:17,541 --> 00:18:22,021 Mr Lusk, sir, I send you half the kidney I took from one woman. 327 00:18:22,181 --> 00:18:25,581 I preserved it for you. The other piece I fried and ate. 328 00:18:26,981 --> 00:18:27,981 - Who wrote that? Did you? 329 00:18:28,141 --> 00:18:29,221 FRED: No. - Did you? 330 00:18:29,381 --> 00:18:31,101 - No. - Where is the letter now? 331 00:18:31,261 --> 00:18:32,781 - With the police. 332 00:18:33,461 --> 00:18:34,901 It must be a prank, no? 333 00:18:35,861 --> 00:18:37,781 If we convinced them our letters were real. 334 00:18:37,941 --> 00:18:39,901 How do we know other papers aren't doing the same. 335 00:18:40,781 --> 00:18:42,821 ERNEST: Catherine Eddowes was missing a kidney. 336 00:18:44,421 --> 00:18:45,621 - Then print it. 337 00:18:45,781 --> 00:18:47,741 If it turns out to be a joke, it is still a damn good story. 338 00:18:47,901 --> 00:18:50,661 - And to hell with the fucking truth, is that it, T P? 339 00:18:54,261 --> 00:18:56,701 You do realise the police are up to their necks in false confessions 340 00:18:56,861 --> 00:18:58,941 and copycat letters ever since we sent ours. 341 00:18:59,101 --> 00:19:00,501 - We? 342 00:19:01,301 --> 00:19:03,981 There is only one of us here with red ink on their hands, Fred. 343 00:19:04,141 --> 00:19:05,181 - (tense music plays) 344 00:19:09,421 --> 00:19:12,181 - I think very often the reporter will carry the can. 345 00:19:12,341 --> 00:19:15,021 If you have an editor telling you to do something 346 00:19:15,181 --> 00:19:19,541 and you go ahead and do it, where does the responsibility lie? 347 00:19:19,701 --> 00:19:21,381 - (tense music continues playing) 348 00:19:25,781 --> 00:19:28,781 - The kidney that was sent to Mr Lusk 349 00:19:28,941 --> 00:19:31,141 of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee 350 00:19:31,301 --> 00:19:33,181 was certainly a significant moment. 351 00:19:34,541 --> 00:19:39,341 The police would want to know is this real or is it someone hoaxing. 352 00:19:51,341 --> 00:19:54,061 - So, it's clear this is half of a human kidney. 353 00:19:54,221 --> 00:19:56,381 Left organ divided lengthways. 354 00:19:56,541 --> 00:19:59,981 The kidney shows an advanced state of nephritis information... 355 00:20:00,141 --> 00:20:02,461 - Which is? - It's a common ailment. 356 00:20:03,381 --> 00:20:06,261 Ginny kidney they called it. It's a drinkers' disease. 357 00:20:08,261 --> 00:20:10,821 - And you say, Catherine Eddowes suffered from Ginny kidney? 358 00:20:12,621 --> 00:20:13,941 And it's the left one. 359 00:20:14,981 --> 00:20:16,341 In which case we might suppose... 360 00:20:17,381 --> 00:20:20,701 - Not conclusively, but it certainly increases the likelihood. 361 00:20:21,701 --> 00:20:24,181 This could be the kidney that was removed from the victim. 362 00:20:27,021 --> 00:20:28,701 - Thank you. 363 00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:32,821 - When I reflect on all of the communications 364 00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:35,421 received in this enquiry, 365 00:20:35,581 --> 00:20:39,261 if there was one that was more likely to be from the killer, 366 00:20:39,421 --> 00:20:40,461 for me it was this one. 367 00:20:41,901 --> 00:20:46,581 We have a piece of human kidney, shortly after Catherine Eddowes 368 00:20:46,741 --> 00:20:50,381 was murdered having had a piece of her kidney removed. 369 00:20:51,661 --> 00:20:53,421 So, for Abberline this would be a lead 370 00:20:53,581 --> 00:20:55,461 he would have to have taken seriously. 371 00:20:58,181 --> 00:20:59,501 - (music drowns out speech) 372 00:21:00,821 --> 00:21:03,381 - (dramatic theme music plays) 373 00:21:06,501 --> 00:21:07,941 (dramatic theme music plays) 374 00:21:17,581 --> 00:21:18,741 - (bells ring) 375 00:21:25,621 --> 00:21:27,021 - Don't you knock? - (door shuts) 376 00:21:30,501 --> 00:21:33,541 - You're drunk! - Chance would be a fine thing. 377 00:21:33,701 --> 00:21:35,101 I have given you all my money. 378 00:21:35,261 --> 00:21:36,501 - I am starving! 379 00:21:37,661 --> 00:21:38,821 You are skint? 380 00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:44,741 You expect me to do what, sing for my fucking supper? 381 00:21:48,021 --> 00:21:50,101 - Mary Jane Kelly is in her mid-20s, 382 00:21:50,261 --> 00:21:54,421 and we know that she told friends that she had been born in Ireland 383 00:21:54,581 --> 00:21:56,861 and grown up in Cardiff in Wales. 384 00:21:57,021 --> 00:22:00,781 We also know that of the people and the women involved in sex work 385 00:22:00,941 --> 00:22:04,101 she had been managing to turn it to her advantage. 386 00:22:05,581 --> 00:22:09,501 - By 1888 Mary Jane Kelly is really down on her luck. 387 00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:12,941 And she is living in poverty with a man by the name of Joseph Barnett. 388 00:22:15,141 --> 00:22:16,181 - Whose coat is this? 389 00:22:18,221 --> 00:22:21,421 I said, who's fucking coat, is it? 390 00:22:23,221 --> 00:22:24,221 I had a friend stay over. 391 00:22:24,381 --> 00:22:27,221 She would have been out on the street otherwise. 392 00:22:27,381 --> 00:22:29,701 - A whore in our house. 393 00:22:29,861 --> 00:22:32,021 - It isn't your house. 394 00:22:32,181 --> 00:22:34,941 And there is already one whore living here so why not two? 395 00:22:36,701 --> 00:22:40,421 - Oh, shut it, just shut it, shut it. I told you to stop that. 396 00:22:40,581 --> 00:22:42,461 - I never promised that. 397 00:22:42,621 --> 00:22:46,381 You're the one that keeps hoping I will change. I do what I do. 398 00:22:46,541 --> 00:22:48,981 Because I choose to, Joseph. 399 00:22:49,141 --> 00:22:55,101 Because I need to, to survive since you clearly can't support me. 400 00:22:55,261 --> 00:22:59,741 - Love is something that you can find in the most 401 00:22:59,901 --> 00:23:01,861 unlikely of places. 402 00:23:02,741 --> 00:23:08,621 But there are experiences in life that make love very, very hard. 403 00:23:08,781 --> 00:23:11,381 And of course prostitution is going to be one of them 404 00:23:12,341 --> 00:23:16,741 because it attacks relationships from all sides. 405 00:23:17,981 --> 00:23:20,341 - How can you let those men stick their tongues 406 00:23:20,501 --> 00:23:24,141 down your throat and push their filthy hands 407 00:23:24,301 --> 00:23:26,901 and dirty cocks inside you. 408 00:23:27,061 --> 00:23:31,941 - You just can't stand the fact that I don't need you to save me. 409 00:23:35,061 --> 00:23:38,141 - You are disgusting! (scoffs) 410 00:23:38,301 --> 00:23:40,461 - And you're pathetic. Get out! 411 00:23:40,621 --> 00:23:41,621 Ahhh! 412 00:23:43,901 --> 00:23:44,901 (gasps and sighs) 413 00:23:50,181 --> 00:23:52,341 - I did seven straight years in the sex trade. 414 00:23:53,421 --> 00:23:59,301 It's a really corrosive experience for human relationships. 415 00:23:59,461 --> 00:24:03,901 I left once and I never went back. 416 00:24:05,581 --> 00:24:11,181 But I do know instinctually I sense, that going back, 417 00:24:11,341 --> 00:24:15,221 having thought that I had got out for good 418 00:24:15,381 --> 00:24:17,901 would have been absolutely devastating. 419 00:24:25,301 --> 00:24:26,461 - (pub hum) 420 00:24:27,941 --> 00:24:31,741 - They've found another body. He's done it again! (door closes) 421 00:24:31,901 --> 00:24:33,301 - Fred, get down there! 422 00:24:36,381 --> 00:24:37,381 Go on! 423 00:24:40,021 --> 00:24:41,021 - Yes, boss. 424 00:24:43,621 --> 00:24:44,821 On my way. 425 00:24:44,981 --> 00:24:46,901 - (door opens and shuts) 426 00:24:47,901 --> 00:24:49,221 - What is the problem with him? 427 00:24:50,741 --> 00:24:54,621 - Well, perhaps our news hound has lost his appetite. 428 00:24:58,461 --> 00:25:02,421 - (tankard lightly thuds, dramatic music plays) 429 00:25:02,581 --> 00:25:04,741 - Fred was working on the frontline; 430 00:25:05,381 --> 00:25:08,701 he is seeing the worst that life can offer. 431 00:25:08,861 --> 00:25:10,421 - (street screams) 432 00:25:11,261 --> 00:25:13,741 SAMANTHA: The way these women were murdered. 433 00:25:13,901 --> 00:25:16,141 There are no words that could accurately describe 434 00:25:16,301 --> 00:25:17,661 what he was faced with. 435 00:25:17,821 --> 00:25:20,101 - Come see the body! 436 00:25:20,261 --> 00:25:22,141 - You can't unsee these things. 437 00:25:22,981 --> 00:25:23,981 You just can't. 438 00:25:28,501 --> 00:25:33,301 So, for someone like Fred this is horrific. 439 00:25:34,421 --> 00:25:36,981 - (street hum) 440 00:25:43,301 --> 00:25:44,381 - Hey. 441 00:25:44,541 --> 00:25:45,861 - Hi. 442 00:25:47,541 --> 00:25:50,341 ABBERLINE: Find out who lives here, alright. 443 00:25:51,981 --> 00:25:54,661 Any news on this bloody landlord? OFFICER: No, sir. 444 00:25:54,821 --> 00:25:57,061 - Well, keep working on it. 445 00:26:01,501 --> 00:26:04,701 - When you look at the previous murders in the series, 446 00:26:05,501 --> 00:26:08,501 they were murders carried out on the street. 447 00:26:08,661 --> 00:26:12,141 And there was that ever present risk of being caught. 448 00:26:12,301 --> 00:26:15,621 This was really the first time that he had killed inside. 449 00:26:17,021 --> 00:26:20,341 - Mary Jane Kelly was now potentially the fifth victim 450 00:26:20,501 --> 00:26:21,861 of this killer. 451 00:26:22,021 --> 00:26:26,061 And I can't think of any crime I have ever investigated 452 00:26:26,221 --> 00:26:28,581 that had got to this level of violence. 453 00:26:28,741 --> 00:26:30,181 - (tense music plays) 454 00:26:40,581 --> 00:26:44,741 OFFICER: Sir, do you want us to kick the door in? Sir? 455 00:26:44,901 --> 00:26:46,461 ABBERLINE: Break it. 456 00:26:46,621 --> 00:26:48,141 - (dramatic music playing) 457 00:26:49,421 --> 00:26:53,981 - If we think about those officers arriving at that scene, 458 00:26:54,141 --> 00:26:55,701 what they would have been confronted with 459 00:26:55,861 --> 00:26:57,621 would have been shocking for them. 460 00:26:57,781 --> 00:26:59,181 - (retches) 461 00:27:01,661 --> 00:27:04,101 - Sir, the photographer is here. 462 00:27:05,141 --> 00:27:06,861 - Document everything. 463 00:27:09,621 --> 00:27:10,781 Close the door. 464 00:27:14,861 --> 00:27:16,781 - (camera shutter clicks) 465 00:27:18,821 --> 00:27:22,021 - When you look at the photos 466 00:27:22,181 --> 00:27:23,901 that are still in existence 467 00:27:25,941 --> 00:27:27,901 they are appalling, and they leave you with a sense 468 00:27:28,061 --> 00:27:31,621 of complete revoltion at what he's done. 469 00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:38,021 He just removed tissues, 470 00:27:38,181 --> 00:27:41,461 removed breasts. 471 00:27:41,621 --> 00:27:43,741 Opened the abdomen. 472 00:27:43,901 --> 00:27:46,461 Almost emptied out the abdomen. 473 00:27:46,621 --> 00:27:51,301 On one particular thigh removed pretty much all the muscles. 474 00:27:51,461 --> 00:27:54,141 He opened the chest. 475 00:27:54,301 --> 00:27:56,261 Took the heart out. 476 00:27:56,421 --> 00:28:00,301 And really just did the most horrendous mutilation to the face. 477 00:28:03,821 --> 00:28:06,061 - If a woman is murdered, 478 00:28:06,221 --> 00:28:08,941 statistically there is a 50% chance 479 00:28:09,101 --> 00:28:12,741 that it is going to be at the hands of their partner or ex-partner. 480 00:28:12,901 --> 00:28:16,981 It's something we know now, and I am sure they were aware of 481 00:28:17,141 --> 00:28:18,421 back in 1888. 482 00:28:20,661 --> 00:28:23,701 So, Mary Jane Kelly's partner Joseph would have been somebody 483 00:28:23,861 --> 00:28:27,341 that everybody wanted to talk to, to get his version of events. 484 00:28:29,021 --> 00:28:31,821 - That looks like him there. - Where? 485 00:28:31,981 --> 00:28:33,061 - At the bar. 486 00:28:34,741 --> 00:28:37,061 Be careful though, OK. I'll wait here. 487 00:28:40,261 --> 00:28:41,421 - Yeah. 488 00:28:49,501 --> 00:28:52,061 Joseph Barnett, is it? Is it? 489 00:28:54,061 --> 00:28:55,741 - Yeah. 490 00:28:55,901 --> 00:28:56,901 It is. 491 00:28:59,741 --> 00:29:02,741 - I, um, I just wanted to ask you a few questions 492 00:29:02,901 --> 00:29:03,981 for The Star newspaper. 493 00:29:05,381 --> 00:29:06,381 - The Star newspaper. 494 00:29:06,541 --> 00:29:10,461 You will be wanting to know all about my Marie Jeanette, I suppose. 495 00:29:11,461 --> 00:29:12,981 I thought it was Mary Jane. 496 00:29:13,141 --> 00:29:16,501 - You thought it was Mary Jane. No, sir, no. 497 00:29:16,661 --> 00:29:18,821 Marie Jeanette. 498 00:29:18,981 --> 00:29:21,901 And I can tell you all about her for The Star newspaper, I can. 499 00:29:24,301 --> 00:29:26,501 - Um, how long were you together? 500 00:29:27,301 --> 00:29:29,861 - Together, about a year and a half. 501 00:29:30,021 --> 00:29:33,741 And we still would be if it wasn't for her... 502 00:29:38,541 --> 00:29:40,821 ...violent habits. 503 00:29:42,301 --> 00:29:45,701 But what do you expect from a Limerick woman. (laughs) 504 00:29:47,381 --> 00:29:48,381 Did you write that down? 505 00:29:48,541 --> 00:29:49,781 - Yeah. JOSEPH: Yeah. 506 00:29:49,941 --> 00:29:51,101 - Yeah. 507 00:29:52,101 --> 00:29:53,581 - I have been with the police two hours 508 00:29:53,741 --> 00:29:58,181 telling them that I saw... 509 00:30:02,421 --> 00:30:07,741 whispers: the body by peeping through the window. 510 00:30:08,781 --> 00:30:09,941 Oh! 511 00:30:16,821 --> 00:30:22,261 (sighs) We were happy, we were. 512 00:30:24,181 --> 00:30:27,701 Apart from when she let that fucking woman in the house! 513 00:30:30,101 --> 00:30:31,101 (exhales) 514 00:30:36,461 --> 00:30:37,501 I left them to it. 515 00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:45,981 And then I gave her no money on Thursday. 516 00:30:47,621 --> 00:30:49,781 And then I saw nothing more of her. 517 00:30:52,461 --> 00:30:53,461 (sobbingly laughs) 518 00:30:58,181 --> 00:30:59,701 Nothing. 519 00:31:02,581 --> 00:31:04,141 - Thank you, Joseph. Bless. 520 00:31:04,301 --> 00:31:05,301 - Thank you. 521 00:31:05,461 --> 00:31:08,341 - There's no doubt that Joseph Barnett's relationship 522 00:31:08,501 --> 00:31:10,901 with Mary Jane Kelly had been volatile. 523 00:31:11,061 --> 00:31:14,301 The smashed window from an argument was evidence of this. 524 00:31:14,461 --> 00:31:17,461 But Barnett provided an alibi which checked out. 525 00:31:17,621 --> 00:31:18,901 - (sobbingly laughs) 526 00:31:19,061 --> 00:31:22,101 - So, the police were happy to eliminate him from their enquiries. 527 00:31:25,541 --> 00:31:28,221 The injuries to Mary Jane Kelly were so appalling 528 00:31:28,381 --> 00:31:31,101 that it was difficult to understand who would be responsible 529 00:31:31,261 --> 00:31:33,661 for something so grotesque. 530 00:31:39,261 --> 00:31:41,741 - (clock chimes in distance) 531 00:31:41,901 --> 00:31:45,941 - The poor woman lay on her back on the bed. 532 00:31:46,941 --> 00:31:50,701 Her throat was cut from ear to ear right down to the spinal column. 533 00:31:50,861 --> 00:31:52,981 The ears and the nose had been cut clean off. 534 00:31:53,141 --> 00:31:55,621 The breasts had also been cleanly placed on a table. 535 00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,581 The stomach and the abdomen had been ripped open. 536 00:31:57,741 --> 00:31:59,981 The kidneys and the heart had also been removed. 537 00:32:00,141 --> 00:32:02,701 The liver had likewise been removed. And laid on her right thigh. 538 00:32:02,861 --> 00:32:07,421 The uterus had been cut out. And these appeared to be missing. 539 00:32:07,581 --> 00:32:09,901 The face was slashed about, so that the features 540 00:32:10,061 --> 00:32:12,621 of the poor creature were beyond all recognition. 541 00:32:15,581 --> 00:32:18,781 The clothes of the woman were lying by the side of the bed, 542 00:32:18,941 --> 00:32:24,381 as though they had been taken off and laid down in an ordinary manner. 543 00:32:27,221 --> 00:32:30,741 Her name was Mary Jane Kelly. 544 00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:34,101 She was 25 years old. 545 00:32:42,541 --> 00:32:45,101 - Warren has this woman's blood on his hands. 546 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:47,981 - Then do not hold back. 547 00:33:06,061 --> 00:33:07,101 And while you are at it, 548 00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:12,261 add that we're the highest selling 549 00:33:12,421 --> 00:33:14,301 evening paper in the country. 550 00:33:16,141 --> 00:33:17,541 - Really? 551 00:33:18,861 --> 00:33:20,421 It seems in poor taste. 552 00:33:22,301 --> 00:33:25,301 - No. It's a direct message to Warren. 553 00:33:29,501 --> 00:33:30,661 He should know our reach. 554 00:33:31,741 --> 00:33:33,501 And he should fear our influence. 555 00:33:33,661 --> 00:33:35,381 - (dramatic music plays) 556 00:33:39,581 --> 00:33:41,501 - The Star had been putting pressure on Warren 557 00:33:41,661 --> 00:33:43,381 in editorial after editorial. 558 00:33:45,221 --> 00:33:47,261 He failed to catch the killer 559 00:33:47,421 --> 00:33:50,781 and in the absence of a killer, the press needed a victory. 560 00:33:52,501 --> 00:33:54,901 And in the end Warren was the fall guy. 561 00:33:56,861 --> 00:33:59,101 - It's clear to me that Commissioner Charles Warren 562 00:33:59,261 --> 00:34:02,341 didn't have the experience to lead such a complex case. 563 00:34:04,981 --> 00:34:08,181 But The Star had been misdirecting the investigation 564 00:34:08,341 --> 00:34:09,621 from the very start. 565 00:34:12,541 --> 00:34:16,061 T P O'Connor was just interested in boosting sales of the newspaper. 566 00:34:17,501 --> 00:34:20,381 And humiliating Charles Warren in the process. 567 00:34:21,221 --> 00:34:23,981 - Oh, how I have longed to write this headline. 568 00:34:24,141 --> 00:34:25,141 Warren Gone! 569 00:34:25,301 --> 00:34:29,101 - (cheering, applause, laughter) 570 00:34:38,261 --> 00:34:39,901 - But no one has caught him though, have they? 571 00:34:40,061 --> 00:34:41,941 - Oh, it's only a matter of time, Fred. 572 00:34:42,101 --> 00:34:45,021 - Mmm. More time to catch a killer 573 00:34:46,661 --> 00:34:49,461 or more time to keep printing money, hey, T P. Hmmm? 574 00:34:49,621 --> 00:34:51,701 (bangs table) My boy! 575 00:34:58,181 --> 00:35:00,861 - It seems like a good time for you and me to have conversation, Fred. 576 00:35:01,021 --> 00:35:02,421 What do you think? 577 00:35:02,581 --> 00:35:04,381 - (percussive dramatic music plays) 578 00:35:13,941 --> 00:35:15,261 - (music drowns out speech) 579 00:35:16,301 --> 00:35:17,621 - (dramatic theme music plays) 580 00:35:21,421 --> 00:35:22,861 (dramatic theme music plays) 581 00:35:31,301 --> 00:35:32,301 - (groans) 582 00:35:34,381 --> 00:35:37,981 It appears you haven't been in the best of spirits, Fred. 583 00:35:38,141 --> 00:35:39,141 Fair comment? 584 00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:44,661 - It's been the hardest story of my career, Mr O'Connor. 585 00:35:44,821 --> 00:35:45,821 It's true. 586 00:35:47,061 --> 00:35:51,541 - Which is why what may appear at first to be bad news, 587 00:35:51,701 --> 00:35:54,061 you might in time become grateful for. 588 00:35:56,101 --> 00:35:57,941 - Are you terminating my position? 589 00:35:58,101 --> 00:36:01,901 - It has come to the attention of Colman and Brunner 590 00:36:02,061 --> 00:36:05,181 that you were behind the forged letters. 591 00:36:07,781 --> 00:36:11,661 - (scoffs) We all were. - I know. 592 00:36:11,821 --> 00:36:14,381 But there is no sense in throwing us all in the fire though, 593 00:36:14,541 --> 00:36:16,421 is there Fred? Huh? 594 00:36:17,901 --> 00:36:21,821 Look, I'm sorry, but you will just have to take this one for the team. 595 00:36:22,861 --> 00:36:23,941 - (sombre music plays) 596 00:36:27,901 --> 00:36:29,501 - And I'll make sure that when you are leaving 597 00:36:29,661 --> 00:36:31,621 that you get an excellent reference. 598 00:36:31,781 --> 00:36:34,741 And of course, payment for your last article. 599 00:36:36,501 --> 00:36:39,981 - Hah! Last article. - Yes. Thank you, Fred. 600 00:36:43,821 --> 00:36:44,821 Thank you. 601 00:36:52,341 --> 00:36:54,101 - (footsteps continue retreating) 602 00:36:56,861 --> 00:37:00,301 - I fully understand the pressures that Fred was under. 603 00:37:03,181 --> 00:37:06,261 But you have a decision to make as to whether or not 604 00:37:06,421 --> 00:37:07,421 you cross that line. 605 00:37:08,141 --> 00:37:13,701 Fred thought about this, and he crossed that line. 606 00:37:15,781 --> 00:37:18,581 I don't think there is any justification for that. 607 00:37:20,141 --> 00:37:25,181 So, I think Fred is just as complicit as T P. 608 00:37:27,301 --> 00:37:31,181 - I think Fred Best knew he was good at his job and storytelling. 609 00:37:33,341 --> 00:37:35,781 He contributed to this case in such a profound way. 610 00:37:40,141 --> 00:37:42,461 And that was something that he will have to live with 611 00:37:42,621 --> 00:37:43,901 for the rest of his life. 612 00:38:02,061 --> 00:38:08,061 - So, gentlemen, I have big plans for this paper. 613 00:38:12,941 --> 00:38:13,941 Ah! 614 00:38:16,221 --> 00:38:20,821 So, have I unwittingly been served my last supper? 615 00:38:23,621 --> 00:38:27,981 - Well, we've decided that you must send in your resignation. 616 00:38:28,141 --> 00:38:30,181 - On what grounds? 617 00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:34,981 For taking a blank piece of paper and turning it into a newssheet 618 00:38:35,141 --> 00:38:37,461 with the reach of 300,000 people? 619 00:38:37,621 --> 00:38:40,221 - But at what cost? 620 00:38:40,381 --> 00:38:43,341 - We now know that the directors of The Star newspaper 621 00:38:43,501 --> 00:38:46,421 found out that their journalists had been misleading 622 00:38:46,581 --> 00:38:47,901 the police investigation. 623 00:38:49,621 --> 00:38:51,741 Fred Best had already been dismissed. 624 00:38:51,901 --> 00:38:54,661 But they now had to wash their hands of T P. 625 00:38:57,661 --> 00:39:00,141 - T P instructed Fred to write the letters. 626 00:39:00,301 --> 00:39:03,701 Then it is absolutely right that he should also be let go. 627 00:39:03,861 --> 00:39:07,221 The buck shouldn't just stop with the reporter, right. 628 00:39:07,381 --> 00:39:10,741 I think there is a real responsibility sitting 629 00:39:10,901 --> 00:39:13,861 within those newspaper organisations who took the decision 630 00:39:14,021 --> 00:39:17,341 to publish information that they knew not to be true. 631 00:39:17,501 --> 00:39:18,941 - You have left us no option. 632 00:39:19,101 --> 00:39:20,581 - Fucking nonsense. 633 00:39:20,741 --> 00:39:24,221 It's the largest circulation of any evening paper in the country. 634 00:39:26,221 --> 00:39:28,501 - We expect your resignation by tomorrow morning. 635 00:39:36,181 --> 00:39:37,941 - I think T P and The Star's reporting 636 00:39:38,101 --> 00:39:41,021 certainly heralded a new era in journalism 637 00:39:41,181 --> 00:39:42,821 that didn't care about the facts. 638 00:39:42,981 --> 00:39:45,581 That cared about chasing a sensational story. 639 00:39:45,741 --> 00:39:46,741 WOMAN: See you tomorrow. 640 00:39:46,901 --> 00:39:49,341 FERN: And not about the impact on the lives of the people 641 00:39:49,501 --> 00:39:50,901 that it involved. 642 00:39:52,301 --> 00:39:57,861 - 11 women were murdered in Whitechapel between 1888 and 1891. 643 00:39:58,941 --> 00:40:01,621 But only five of the victims are generally agreed 644 00:40:01,781 --> 00:40:03,461 to be by the same killer, 645 00:40:03,621 --> 00:40:04,621 Jack the Ripper. 646 00:40:05,541 --> 00:40:08,421 With Mary Jane Kelly thought to have been the last. 647 00:40:13,501 --> 00:40:17,141 Speculation as to Jack the Ripper's identity has raged 648 00:40:17,301 --> 00:40:19,741 for almost 140 years. 649 00:40:20,621 --> 00:40:24,941 Notable suspects include Walter Sickert, a famed artist, 650 00:40:26,381 --> 00:40:29,301 Dr Francis Tumblety, an American herb doctor, 651 00:40:31,061 --> 00:40:34,941 and most recently Aaron Kosminski a Polish barber. 652 00:40:35,861 --> 00:40:38,661 But the killer seemed to be able to get away with his crimes 653 00:40:38,821 --> 00:40:42,261 in the middle of one of the most packed cities in the world. 654 00:40:47,581 --> 00:40:49,381 The Star's handling of the story 655 00:40:49,541 --> 00:40:52,541 helped it become the biggest selling newspaper in the country. 656 00:40:55,461 --> 00:40:57,381 - Well, for all of our sins, 657 00:40:59,981 --> 00:41:03,501 we shone a light on the destitute when they were left 658 00:41:03,661 --> 00:41:07,341 by the establishment to suffer in the darkness. 659 00:41:07,501 --> 00:41:08,861 And what's more, 660 00:41:11,421 --> 00:41:13,501 we fucking entertained them as we did it. 661 00:41:13,661 --> 00:41:14,661 - (laughter) 662 00:41:17,381 --> 00:41:20,701 - But how much did the behaviour of the journalists 663 00:41:20,861 --> 00:41:25,021 divert police resources, manpower, 664 00:41:25,181 --> 00:41:27,901 attention, time, hours 665 00:41:28,781 --> 00:41:31,101 away from looking for the killer? 666 00:41:31,261 --> 00:41:32,261 Jack the Ripper. 667 00:41:33,981 --> 00:41:37,061 And yet that's what still all these years later 668 00:41:37,221 --> 00:41:39,061 stays in the public conscience. 669 00:41:40,061 --> 00:41:43,621 I honestly, genuinely think it comes down to the name. 670 00:41:43,781 --> 00:41:45,261 Such a simple thing, isn't it? 671 00:41:46,301 --> 00:41:49,701 Giving a killer or a case a name. 672 00:41:52,701 --> 00:41:54,741 People remember Jack the Ripper. 673 00:41:57,541 --> 00:42:01,541 - The name Jack the Ripper is something that was given to us 674 00:42:01,701 --> 00:42:04,981 by a group of men who were trying to make money. 675 00:42:05,141 --> 00:42:10,941 And we lose sight of that, and we lose sight of the women themselves 676 00:42:11,101 --> 00:42:13,741 because we want to be scared of the monster. 677 00:42:19,021 --> 00:42:21,981 - I think the press of the day were entirely complicit 678 00:42:22,141 --> 00:42:25,301 in turning the whole thing from a tragedy 679 00:42:25,461 --> 00:42:28,621 into a highly entertaining fiasco. 680 00:42:35,781 --> 00:42:36,781 - Let's go. 681 00:42:36,941 --> 00:42:40,301 - They did that for their own ends. For their own careers. 682 00:42:40,461 --> 00:42:45,901 And they did it entirely I would say without a wit of compassion 683 00:42:46,061 --> 00:42:47,301 for the women involved. 684 00:42:47,461 --> 00:42:49,501 And not only the women who had already been killed 685 00:42:49,661 --> 00:42:51,581 but the women who were sure to be killed. 686 00:42:54,101 --> 00:42:55,541 - (typewriter keys clacking) 687 00:43:24,061 --> 00:43:25,061 - (choir ahhs) 688 00:44:02,981 --> 00:44:07,101 Subtitles by Sky Access Services 79997

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