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The Five The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, t...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was described as incredibly good, focusing on the lives of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper, excluding any details about the murders themselves.

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I started reading The Five. Yes. Oh, that book is so goddamn good. By Haley Rubinhold, which is so incredible. It's about the canonical five known victims of Jack the Ripper, and it's only about their...

— Episode: 401 - Keep A Lid On It

Episode: 401 - Keep A Lid On It

It was described as incredibly good, focusing on the lives of the five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper, excluding any details about the murders themselves.

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I started reading The Five. Yes. Oh, that book is so goddamn good. By Haley Rubinhold, which is so incredible. It's about the canonical five known victims of Jack the Ripper, and it's only about their lives. That's it.

The Rest Is History

Rubenhold's book was cited as arguing that all the victims were killed while they slept, contrasting with another author's view that they were out soliciting.

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Hallie Rubenhold in her book, The Five, she believes all the women were killed as they slept.

— Episode: 625. Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitecha...

Episode: 625. Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitechapel (Part...

Rubenhold's book was cited as arguing that all the victims were killed while they slept, contrasting with another author's view that they were out soliciting.

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Hallie Rubenhold in her book, The Five, she believes all the women were killed as they slept.

Hallie Rubenhold in her book, The Five, she believes all the women were killed as they slept. Philip Sutton, on the other hand, she went out to solicit to get customers.

Episode: 624. Jack The Ripper: History’s Darkest Mystery (P...

The hosts highlighted that Hallie Rubenhold authored the 2019 prizewinning book The Five, a collective biography of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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Hallie Rubenhold, who's been on the show in the early days, she wrote a book called The Five, didn't she? In 2019, a prize winning book, which was a sort of group biography of the murdered women.

Episode: 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4)

The hosts cited Rubenhold's book as providing expertly sourced, detailed accounts of the other Jack the Ripper victims, and noted that it found no verifiable statements from Mary Jane Kelly about her life before arriving in London.

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to quote Hallie Rubenhold in whose book The Five, you know, she gives very detailed accounts of the lives of the other victims, all of them expertly sourced, kind of drawing on all kinds of written material. But she says of Mary Jane Kelly, not a single statement made by her about her life prior to her arrival in London has ever been verified.

Episode: 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Pa...

The hosts described it as a brilliant work on the victims' lives and noted its thesis that the victims were killed while asleep and were homeless.

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Hallie Rubenhold in her book, The Five, which is brilliant on the lives of the victims, has a thesis that the victims were all killed as they slept, that they were homeless.

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