From the Vault - Mary Jane Kelly - The Ripper's Final Victim
From the Vault - The fifth and final canonical victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper...allegedly... was Mary Jane Kelly, a woman who was an enigma, with a hidden past that no-one could ...
11 Feb 20251h 19min
From the Vault - Catherine Eddowes - The Ripper's Fourth Victim
From the Vault - With the news cycle circling a tenuous link to a Jewish immigrant in London, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, let's focus on what we do know of about the Whitechapel murderers, th...
11 Feb 202554min
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride - The Ripper's Third Victim
From the Vault - Elizabeth Stride suffered in life an death, all because of the patriarchal views that existed in the Victorian era and even today, with so much focus on the killer, let's instead focu...
10 Feb 20251h 2min
From the Vault - Annie Chapman - The Ripper's Second Victim
From the Vault - The life of Annie Chapman, another weary woman in Whitechapel who suffered. Her life so often eclipsed by her death, the victims do not deserve to have their stories a footnote for t...
10 Feb 202549min
From the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim
From the Vault catch up on the lives of the five canonical victims of "Jack the Ripper" starting with Mary Ann Nichols, Polly to her friends. The one s=that started it all and led to crackpot theories...
10 Feb 20251h 13min
129. Joshua N. Haldeman - Elon Musk's Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
Some families have skeletons in the closet, others have an entire ossuary under the floorboards, most like to keep them quiet but the Musk family prefer to put them on display. Elon Musk's grandfather...
4 Feb 20251h 12min
128. The Brothers Kellogg
Before Froot Loops, Special K and Rice Krispies, there was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, a devout Seventh Day Adventist whose only fears were meat-based germs, racial integration and syphilis, a man whose f...
27 Jan 202554min
127. Nuns on the Run - Outlaws and Thieves
In the 1980s in the idyllic town of Bruges, Belgium, an order of elderly nuns, the Poor Clares decided to stick two fingers up to the Church and trade their convent for a castle with the help of their...
26 Nov 202447min
