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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: RIPPER CONFIDENTIAL -- TOM WESCOTT IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR
Description: Groundbreaking history and exciting investigative journalism combine in a work jam-packed with newly unearthed finds and fresh insights that pull us deeper into the world of Jack the Ripper and closer to the man himself. Wescott does not promote a suspect but instead comprehensively investigates the murders of Polly Nichols and Elizabeth Stride, bringing to light new medical evidence, crucial new material on important witnesses, and – revealed for the first time – the name of a woman who may have met Jack the Ripper and survived to tell the tale. Also discussed in this book: Charles Lechmere, recently named as a susp...