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Gordon Frederick Cummins (18 February 1914 – 25 June 1942) was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper, who murdered four women and attempted to murder two others over a six-day period in London in February 1942.
The Blackout Ripper was the pseudonym given to 28-year-old Gordon Frederick Cummins, an English serial killer who murdered four women in London in 1942. The Ripper tag came from similarities with the Jack the Ripper murders as both killers mutilated their victims.
Gordon Cummins was sentenced to death and despite a campaign by his shocked and distressed family, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, to reprieve the death sentence, the Blackout Ripper, who had slain four women in the most vicious, obscene and sadistic manner was finally hung on the 25th June, 1942.
Jan 20, 2022 · The Blackout Ripper Gordon F. Cummins is thought to have killed six women in London during WWII and attempted to murder two more before his capture (Image: Getty Images) The 41-year-old pharmacist, Evelyn Hamilton, was the first victim, found strangled on February 9, just as with the first two murders she had been robbed too, with £80 missing ...
Gordon Frederick Cummins was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper, who murdered four women and attempted to murder two others over a six-day period in London in February 1942.
The Blackout Ripper was the nickname given to 28-year-old Gordon Frederick Cummins, an English serial killer who murdered four women in London in 1942 (Getty Images)
Jan 11, 2012 · Gordon Cummins, who was born and brought up in York before moving away in his teens, strangled and mutilated four women in four days 70 years ago, and tried to murder two others. Author Winston...
