It's London in 1888...Fear has already gripped the East End. In the wake of the “Double Event,” the hunt for Jack the Ripper intensifies, but the killings only get worse, and theories seem to multiply. In this episode, we trace the investigation through the early days until modern times.

We’ll explore the suspects who seem to have been hiding in plain sight.

Before the murders began, London was already unraveling. Poverty, overcrowding, and disease turned Whitechapel into a place of desperation...The uneasy mix of empire, industry, and inequality paved the way for darkness.

Part I explores the world of late Victorian London and the real lives of the women who became the victims in this story. This isn’t just the tale of a killer, it’s the story of the city that created him.

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As tensions in Tombstone reach a breaking point, uneasy truces give way to open threats. In Part II, the line between law and vengeance begins to blur, and the cost of order grows dangerously high...

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Tombstone was a boomtown built on silver, ambition, and blood in the wild west. The Earps arrive in a town teetering between law and lawlessness where fortunes rise fast, grudges run deep, and a single spark could ignite a war.

Edward Plantagenet, the 17th Earl of Warwick, was born into royal power...and forgotten behind the walls of the Tower of London. Living in the shadow of his infamous cousins, the missing Princes in the Tower, his story unfolds during the infamous Wars of the Roses.

Yet, his life was more than a footnote to their mystery. As the last male Plantagenet with a considerable claim to the English throne, Edward’s story is one of innocence, bloodline, and betrayal in a kingdom still haunted by civil war and transitioning into Tudor England.

In Part II, the walls close in. The disappearance of two royal children would echo through five centuries of history. We trace how politics, rumor, and legacy intertwined to shape one of England’s most enduring legends

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In a tumultuous medieval England, two young princes vanished inside the Tower of London... and history has never stopped asking what happened to them.

Part I explores the turbulent backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the family rivalries between Lancaster and York, that shook the English throne, and resulted in the rise of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the man who would become Richard III.