E2: Welcome to Whitechapel
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London on August. 6th 1888 was one of the greatest cities on Earth, but the Whitechapel neighborhood was a byword for poverty, violence, and vice. Jack the Ripper will slaughter his victims here. Join Hallie Rubenhold on a tour of this slum - with its busy markets, rowdy pubs, filthy lodging houses, and crowded police cells - and meet the women who will soon cross paths with the Ripper.
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