Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Pushkin Industries
4.7from 2,497 ratings
- 66
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 2,497
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 938K
- YouTube views
About Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister, a special limited series from RTÉ. The story of Elizabeth Plunkett—a 23 year old woman from Dublin who was murdered by Ireland’s first serial killers. On the last weekend of summer in 1976 Elizabeth Plunkett went on a night away with friends, to Brittas Bay in county Wicklow before she was abducted by John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. Now, almost 50 years later, Elizabeth’s family are finally trying to get their sister some justice. Binge all episodes of Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister early and ad-free with a Pushkin+ subscription. Sign up at pushkin.fm/plus or on the Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister show page on Apple Podcasts. Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper: The streets of wartime London are pitch black and the darkness offers cover to a murderer every bit as terrible as Jack the Ripper. During one awful week in February 1942 he viciously attacked women night after night. But the victims of the so-called Blackout Ripper are now all but forgotten. Historian Hallie Rubenhold and criminologist Alice Fiennes share new details from the archives to tell the extraordinary and moving stories of the women who died and why their deaths were swept from view. Bad Women: The Ripper Retold: In the fall of 1888, five women were brutally murdered in the slums of London. But everything you think you know about Jack the Ripper and those murdered women is wrong. Hallie reconstructs the lives of the five victims - revealing the appalling treatment they faced as women in the 1880s, and completely overturning the accepted Ripper story.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Industries
- Category
- history · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 66 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Agent Layla from CBC’s Personally
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Introducing: Agent Layla from CBC’s Personally
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She puts on dark sunglasses and a puffer jacket with a big hood. She slides into the back of an SUV. Two plainclothes cops are inside. They've given her a codename. She's Agent Layla. She takes a deep breath. They head to the airport. Vienna gets herself a table at the lounge. She tries to blend in. […]
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- Leon Neyfakh
- Alice Gregory
- Sam Jones
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- YouTube views
- 937,810
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,234 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,263 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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