About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "True Crime Time For September 30, 2026 | Murder Over Chicken, Jack the Ripper & a Sixth Woman Linked to an Alleged Serial Killer" from Real Life Real Crime covers a mix of historical and current true-crime stories, opening with the 1630 execution of Mayflower passenger John Billington and moving through Jack the Ripper's Double Event of September 30, 1888, and the 1946 Nuremberg war-crimes verdicts. Contemporary segments include a New Jersey mother accused of hiding her missing teenage son, a Memphis woman sentenced to 30 years for killing Church's Chicken employee Anitra West, an Indiana toddler's drowning, a fatal beach-lounger argument in Greece, and a fatal shooting at a North Carolina Zaxby's. The episode closes on Oregon's Jesse Calhoun, already charged in connection with five women's deaths, now indicted on a first-degree manslaughter charge tied to a sixth woman, Elizabeth "Libby" Gibson.
The case behind the episode
The historical segment revisits Whitechapel-mordene 1888: Jack the Rippers uopklarede forbrydelser, the unsolved series of killings that took place between August 31 and November 9, 1888, in Whitechapel and Spitalfields, with one murder occurring in Mitre Square. Five women—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—were killed by an unidentified perpetrator popularly known as Jack the Ripper, a nickname rather than a confirmed identity. The September 30 Double Event refers to the murders of Stride and Eddowes on the same night.
Hosts and release
Woody Overton hosts Real Life Real Crime, a weekly true-crime podcast built on first-hand accounts from an active investigator, drawing on cases he investigated himself. This episode, number 290, runs 44 minutes and was released on September 30, 2026, available on Apple Podcasts.
