As The Vatican prepares to bury Pope Francis, perhaps one of the most beloved popes in the history of the Catholic Church, in this special episode Behn and Carls dive into the untimely ends of Popes Formosus, Alexander VI and John Paul I.

Carls speaks for the 3 victims of Michelle "Shelly" Knotek, who went from terrorizing her children, to terrorizing her boarders, and eventually, murder. Huge trigger warning, discussing situations of domestic violence, starvation, and child abuse.

Between 1888 and 1891, eleven impoverished sex workers were murdered, resulting in an atmosphere of fear among residents. This palpable fear was possibly equalled only by the heightened frustration of ithe nvestigators who scoured any and all possible leads looking for the cur. Despite extensive resources and the best investigators which the London Metropolitan and Scotland Yard could offer, those responsible for the crimes would never be identified. Whether they were committed by the same perpetrator or several different ones has always been debated. However, the so called "Canonical Five" were initially linked together by police, and, continue to live on in popular culture and among, media, sofa sleuths, and historians as having been victims of "Jack the Ripper."

In this episode of Two Friends and a Coffin, Carls dives into the Whitechapel Murders of 1888, speaking for the canonical five, as well as an additional suspected victim who may have been "Saucy Jack's" first murder:

Martha Tabrum
Mary Ann Nichols
Annie Chapman
Elizabeth Stride
Catherine Eddowes
Mary Jane Kelly