{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/633adc56be69d50012154af8/67f6761b6a2126524ddb7d41?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Devil of Whitechapel: Jack the Ripper","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/633adc56be69d50012154af8/1744205326509-e58b8972-3591-4e86-9353-3d1bbfb86a6d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>London, 1888.</p><p><br></p><p>The city breathes in gaslight and exhales fog. Cobblestones glisten with rain. Somewhere, in the twisting maze of Whitechapel’s alleys, a footstep echoes—measured, patient, unhurried.</p><p><br></p><p>A woman—cold, tired, desperate—leans against a brick wall. She doesn’t notice the figure in the shadows. No one ever does, not until it’s too late.</p><p><br></p><p>Moments later, silence. Then a whisper of movement… and blood on stone.</p><p><br></p><p>By dawn, the city will wake to horror. Again.</p><p><br></p><p>The newspapers will scream of slaughter. Politicians will argue. Priests will pray. The police will fumble through the darkness, searching for a phantom.</p><p><br></p><p>He has no face. No name. Only a message, scrawled in red ink.</p><p><br></p><p>“Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.”</p><p><br></p><p>This is the story of Jack the Ripper, the most infamous and mysterious serial killer in history. But this is not just the story of a killer. This is an anatomy of fear - of five women whose names became footnotes, and a city that tried to forget them.</p>","author_name":"Present History"}