Jack the Stripper (Or, Little Chef – Don’t Die of Ignorance)

Everyone Dies In Sunderland: A podcast about growing up terrified in the eighties and nineties

Between 1964 and 1965 a still unidentified serial killer took the lives of six sex workers in London, earning the nickname “Jack the Stripper” as their bodies were left naked or undressed in public. Was the killer someone famous enough to have had their own This is Your Life and had Bruce Forsyth as a pallbearer at their funeral?

This is a story with everything. The Krays. The Masons. James Bond, The Profumo Scandal, a beloved sport-star turned TV personality, his boyfriend, the popstar, soon to die in mysterious circumstances, Dave Allen, Bob Monkhouse, and the most extraordinary – if horrible - murder weapon this or any other podcast will ever feature.

Does it have any connection to the 1990s or the North East though?

Probably.

We also remember the absolute state of eating out in the eighties and nineties. The Wimpy Bender! The Little Chef having a logo which was literally a man sticking his fingers down this throat! BHS AS A RESTAURANT!

Along the way: Bread the Board Game, Gazza the Board Game and Cluedo the TV show.

What do you think the worst board game of the eighties and nineties? And what was the worst tourist attraction your parents dragged you to when it wasn’t raining?

You can reach us on email [email protected], on Twitter at @everyonediespod, on Facebook and Instagram.

Our theme music is “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here:

https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay

“Freddie Mills is Dead, Freddie Mills is Dead, Dead Fred, Dead Fred, Dead Fred/ FRED’S DEAD! BROWN BREAD! FREDDIE MILLS IS DEAD!”