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Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Darkness of the Night
A killer on the loose in London kills four women over one week. He strikes at night and the darkness helps him get away and disappear. But he also uses new, quite secluded spaces that have opened up as a result of war. And it's not just the spaces of war that help him get away with it. The man is training to be a fighter pilot. Fighter pilots are incredibly glamorous at the time and really seen as heroes. So I think that because he goes around in this uniform, the people of his own side don't suspect him. And he uses that to pick up women.
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