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Episode 3: The East Lancs Ripper

Episode 3: The East Lancs Ripper

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Between 1988 and 1994, a quiet corridor of the North West — the East Lancashire Road — became a dumping ground for the dead. Four women, each killed in brutal, methodical ways. Stabbed. Strangled. Dismembered. Was it the work of a single sadistic killer? Or a coincidence hiding in plain sight?

In this episode, we dive into the chilling cases of Linda Donaldson, Maria Requena, Vera Anderson, and Julie Finley — victims of a phantom the tabloids dubbed the East Lancs Ripper. We trace the investigation through forensic dead-ends, media frenzy, and cold case speculation that still casts a long shadow over Northern England.

And we ask: Could this mystery tie into one of Britain’s most notorious modern serial killers? Or is the Ripper just a story we told ourselves to make sense of senseless violence?
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