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From the Vault - Polly Nichols - The Ripper's First Victim
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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 and women being blamed for their own violent deaths at the hands of a man.
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