#157 - The Blackout Ripper: First Blood - Part One (Mabel Church, Britain).

In the second week of February 1942, six women were attacked on consequecutive days across London's West End; two were violently assaulted and four were brutally tortured and murdered. All were attributed to Gordon Frederick Cummins, who would later be dubbed 'The Blackout Ripper'. But was he a one-off spree-killer, or did this sadistic maniac have two more victims in his past?

• Date: Monday 12th October 1941 at between 10pm and 10:30pm (time of the attack)
• Location: 225 Hampstead Road, London, England, NW1 (demolished)
• Victims: 1 attacked (Mabel Church)
• Culprits: 1 (Gordon Frederick Cummins?)
• Two possible killings by Britain's least known spree killer

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