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16,678. Dr Crippen killed Belle Elmore
Ran away from Miss le Neve
Right across the ocean blue
Followed by Inspector Dew
Ship’s ahoy, naughty boy! (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Epigrams) Popular children’s song
16,679. I came across what seemed to be human remains. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen) Chief Inspector Dew, court evidence
16,680. Poisoning by Hyoscine. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) Dr Wilcox, Home Office Chief Scientific Officer, court evidence
16,681. Forensic detectives have re-examined one of the most famous crimes of all time. A murder shocking in its brutality. It was the first trial by media. The first trial dominated by forensic evidence. It was the trial of Dr Crippen. Now a new investigation using DNA and previously confidential documents will cast serious doubt on Crippen’s conviction. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) Was Dr Crippen Innocent? Channel 5 2008
16,682. This murder was as horrific as anything the Ripper carried out. Still more alarming, the prime suspect seemed such a gentleman. A doctor living in suburbia. Yet it seemed he was capable of poisoning his wife and then slicing her body into small pieces: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,683. His wax figure still stands in London’s Chamber of Horrors. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,684. Now she was in her thirties, an aspiring actress; he was middle aged and serious. And they had nothing in common. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,685. Above all, were the body parts in the cellar really Cora Crippen? (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,686. The forty-seven-year-old doctor, outwardly respectable, was sleeping with his twenty-six-year-old secretary Ethel ‘le Neve’. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,687. Dr David Foran’s work on the Crippen case ... made headlines around the world ... ‘The tissue on that slide is male in origin’ ... Michigan State University’s work confirms that Crippen was executed for a crime he didn’t commit. It was a miscarriage of justice. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,688. Only Dew and one other officer were present when the remains were found. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,689. Recent research in America has turned up tantalising clues that Cora Crippen may have travelled there by ship in 1910. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) ibid.
16,691. The dismemberment of the body: it does not make sense to dismember one’s victim. This is the only case I know of where the victim was dismembered. A poisoner attempts to get a natural death certificate signed and then walk away from the crime. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) Dr John Trestrail, forensic toxicologist
16,692. Cora was drinking heavily. She’d been known to have an affair. He went to work. He came home and she was gone. That’s what he claimed in court. They had a fight. She says, ‘I’m leaving you. I’ll never be back. You’ll never find me.’ (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) Dr John Trestrail
16,693. This is the only hyoscine murder case I’m familiar with ... It was used in obstetrics – an abortion [is] an obstetrical procedure. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Poison) Dr John Trestrail
16,694. Here we have a report to the Metropolitan police saying that a woman of Cora’s age, of her stature, asked a carriage man to remove five trunks from 39 Hilldrop Crescent to another location. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) Dr John Trestrail
16,695. I think they’re [the evidence] planted. And I think it was planted by the police authorities. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder Cases: Crippen & Police) Dr John Trestrail
16,696. I make a last appeal to the world not to think the worst of me. Face to face with God I believe that facts will be forthcoming to prove my innocence. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) Hawley Harvey Crippen, letter from prison cell to Miss le Neve
16,697. The Captain compared the couple to photographs printed in the newspapers, and was soon convinced they were Crippen and Le Neve ... Daily reports appeared in the newspapers. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) Great Crimes & Trials: Dr Crippen
16,698. Crippen was unfortunate in his choice of solicitor. The notoriously dishonest Arthur Newton, who was later to be struck off. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,699. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen is remembered as one of the most sinister murderers of the twentieth century. In 1910 he was hanged for poisoning his wife and mutilating her body. The story of his capture became the very first international tabloid event ... It was a story that had everything ... They were foiled by the new miracle technology of wireless. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) History’s Mysteries: The Real Doctor Crippen, History 2003
16,700. With opinion stacked heavily against him facts became hidden and pieces of evidence were strung together to become the rope around his neck ... Hawley Harvey Crippen should never have hanged. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,701. Dew spent the first day of his investigation interviewing Crippen. Crippen painted a dark picture of his life with Cora. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,702. Crippen had married her when she was just nineteen, but she had already been the mistress of a wealthy manufacturer. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,703. Dew heard that earlier in the marriage Cora had had an affair with an American musical artist from Chicago. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,704. He struggled to pay for his wife’s excesses. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,705. Dew learned that Cora had been threatening to leave for years. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,706. When Dew suggested they search his house at Hilldrop Crescent Crippen readily agreed. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,707. New clues suggested Cora had been planning her departure. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,708. They were travelling under the name of Robinson as father and son ... Dew and Mitchell gave chase. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,709. Now the press themselves would stage-manage the final act – the trial ... For the press the story was more important than the law. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,710. There was no head, limbs or sexual parts. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,711. This single piece of skin was to prove pivotal to the case. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,712. The final banal nail in Crippen’s jacket was a pyjama jacket found in Cora’s remains. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,713. He still proclaimed his innocence. Alone in Pentonville Prison Crippen had just four weeks before his execution. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,714. At the same time that Cora tried to remove £600 from their Deposit Account she had hired a removal firm to take six chairs away from Hilldrop Crescent to the home of an American music teacher. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,715. They had contaminated the murder scene. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) ibid.
16,716. I don’t want to be responsible for your demise if I can save you in the way, but I will never come forward personally as I am happy now. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Murder: Crippen) Belle Elmore Crippen, letter to Crippen in prison, sent from Chicago
16,717. The letter [from the apparently murdered wife of Dr Crippen, post-dated Chicago] itself had been passed to the Home Secretary – Winston Churchill – who slipped it into his pocket and maybe forgot all about it because it was certainly never given to the defence as it should be. (Miscarriages of Justice: Crippen & Winston Churchill) Julian Duffus, historian