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Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer (1888)
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Crimes That Made History

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The sensational news stories recounted in this series show how our values and expectations can be set by violent crimes, accidents and suicides. Each episode in this series revisits a fascinating page of our shared history, meticulously decoding and deconstructing an event that was exploited by headline-hunting news sources. These accounts may be disdained by historians, but they have shaped society.

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Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer (1888)
25MIN
Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer (1888)
Roswell (1947)
25MIN
Roswell (1947)
St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)
26MIN
St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)
Jonestown (1978)
25MIN
Jonestown (1978)
Death of Princess Di (1997)
25MIN
Death of Princess Di (1997)

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