Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins

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We try our very best, but cannot guarantee perfection. We strive to recommend the very best things that are suggested by our community and are things we would do ourselves - our aim is to be the trusted friend to parents. This is our overview of Jack the Ripper.At Kidadl we pride ourselves on offering families original ideas to make the most of time spent together at home or out and about, wherever you are in the world. This monster was very real, and he left a trail of bloodied and dissected victims in his wake. But how does a man whose frenzied, but short, reign of terror come to live on through the generations? Is it the fact the culprit was never found? Is it because he was the first serial killer publicised by London's hungry and growing media? We may never know, but what we do know is he was no myth.

The Ripper, so-called because of a letter supposedly dubbing himself so, struck terror and murder into the heart of London's East End over 130 years ago. No other figure in the history of media killers has cast as much fear and terror as London's infamous Jack the Ripper. No offence or harm is intended towards the victims' or their families in our reading of the coroner's reports on each case. Warning: This podcast contains graphic descriptions of real-life murder victims.

― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe, “The air you're breathing right now is also the same air that once circulated through the respiratory system of Jesus over 2000 years ago, which probably makes you feel a bit spiritual, doesn’t it? But unfortunately you’re also breathing the same air that once circulated through the body of Jack the Ripper, which probably makes you feel a bit shit”

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins