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The Art of Crime
by Gavin Whitehead
A new history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts. Season 1 is titled The Unusual Suspects: Artists Accused of Being Jack the Ripper. For show notes and full transcripts, check out www.artofcrimepodcast.com. Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts.
In 1849, George and Maria Manning murdered a guest in their London home and fled the British capital . A dramatic hunt for the killers ensued. After the law caught up with the Mannings, the glamorous Maria achieved near-celebrity status as she made her way through the justice system. A staggering thirty thousand spectators gathered to watch her and George's public execution, triggering a ferocious debate about the ethics of capital punishment. When renowned wax modeler Madame Tussaud unveiled a likeness of Maria in the Chamber of Horrors, a showroom in her wax museum that exhibited effigies of notorious criminals, Tussaud met with perhaps the fiercest criticism she had ever faced in her career.
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