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Born evil or simply mad? Frederick Bailey Deeming was known and reviled across three continents. He spent years travelling under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible and the desperate. The Devil's Work raises fresh questions about Deeming's role in the Whitechapel murders and the identity of Jack the Ripper. In an era when spiritualism and a fascination with the afterlife was rife, Deeming's story attracted some of the world's most powerful and influential people, including Australia's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Garry Linnell about one of Australia's most notorious criminals, the attraction of the big stories and bringing history to life in The Devil's Work: How Australia hunted and hanged the serial killer who shocked the world: Jack the Ripper.