The Serial Killer Who Terrorized London’s Women During the Second World War

The story of the Blackout Ripper.

Prateek Dasgupta
Lessons from History
8 min readMar 3, 2022

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John Shine, an 18-year-old delivery boy, was on his way to a pub in Central London on February 13th, 1942. He was making a delivery of beverages. Suddenly, Shine heard a strange noise in an alley.

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Prateek Dasgupta
Lessons from History

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