I watch many of these shows. The amount of relevant photos & newspaper articles ( from whatever archives ) was stunning. Easily the best Dr Crippen show I have seen. Thanks for posting\sharing.
Never heard of Dr. Crippen UNTIL a man I worked with told a story about him. Long story short, i work with Dr. Crippen grandson, same last name and all!!!! Crazy.
So Charlotte went to Confession every time she slept with her husband? I can just hear the priest upon her entry into the confessional: "Oh, not you again ..."
I hate to side with a murderer. but Cora belittled her husband, even demanding he bring her and her lovers tea, while in bed. and when Crippen died he asked that a photo of Ethel be placed in his coffin, and years later when Ethel died, she requested a photograph of Crippen be put in her casket, It's obvious they were desperately in love.
he didn't do it, the stupid bitch sent him letter from chi-town telling him all about how she knew he was about to hang for killing her and that she was going to let him swing. Don't know why she didn't think the cops wouldn't get and read that letter first, some women can be so stupid. Even f-in Churchill knew about it and read the letter... Lost all respect for that old fuck when I saw the bio about this case, he let n innocent man die. That and Crippens a local I guess. Could be a cousin for all I know, that's how it was round here in those days. Still are really
@@M.Campbell-Sherwood I never heard this. So in other words, if this is true then this was a total miscarriage of justice and a man was hanged for a crime he didn't commit and he was telling the truth at his trial. Question I have is back in Crippen's day I am sure they could determine the gender of a carcass, even if badly decomposed. How could they miss this important fact?
@@WitchidWitchid they didn't care. It was a botched job to begin with. They had evidence from the cabbie who took Crippen's wife and her possessions from their home to another home, proving she was alive and well. They disregarded it. Jack's ghost was on their back and it was an embarrassment that they didn't and couldn't find him. It made them look bad in the eyes of the public and shamed them so they, I'm sure, felt they HAD to get this killer. I mean it was the biggest case after Jack. They couldn't fail this time God no. Even if the man was innocent and there wasn't really a murder to begin with. You know how fragile the male ego can be, especially when its a cop lol. They probably did go out and find some poor woman who died, whether a prostitute who died naturally or was killed or even faked it with a young mans body and messed it up beyond recognition. Then there's the Med school where you can get bodies or buy one off the a$$e$ who dig them up and sell them to the school's. People were sick and did that a lot back then. Leave their clothes and jewelry and its not grave robbing just take the body. Then sell it. That's most likely where they got the body of "Mrs. Crippen", *snorts derisively* . Research was done in recent years and she was found, via census reports, living in her sisters home here in America, AFTER her supposed MURDER. I tell ya I couldn't believe it when I heard that...
Just because someone treat like shit don’t mean u can kill him I think he killed because he was in love and hated he’s wife so to feel sorry for sounds stupid
While Crippen was in custody, Winston Churchill, who was Home Secretary at the time, received a letter from America that claimed to be from Cora Crippen, saying that she was alive, and while she was happy with her new lover in America, that she did not wish her husband to be hanged for her murder. We have no way of knowing if that letter was genuine, but we'll never know, as Winston Churchill destroyed the letter. Winston Churchill should have been sacked and prosecuted for destroying evidence.
@Mayoforsam yeah and she didn't send it to Churchill she sent it to him (Crippen) bragging that she thought it was funny he was going to swing for his death. Churchill did know bout it though. The family is trying to get the crown to exonerate him because of hit.
Well, whatever you think about the murders, look at the clothes! They're amazing. ... no, I don't think murder is OK. I'm saying look at what a great historical archive these pictures are :)
I wish I had some older style clothing. I love older styles. They have such charm. Some people today look like they fell out of a dumpster. I love the old bathers too! 😅
That's an amazing amount of forensic work in a case from that time. Someone thought about the label on the clothes and found out since when that was added. They managed to prove that drugs/toxins were used and which. they matched the scar to the one the wife had had. Very interesting.
I still don't understand why cropping would take time to remove all the bones and bury cora flesh in lime and a dressing gown with a label of the ship where he bought it. Something smells and I'm not talking about the flesh. Walter Dew was also involved in the Jack the ripper case as a young constable.
She let him swing for something she had the motif and, quite possibly, the opportunity for. He was so smitten with her that he let her get away with it. What a shame. "Mrs Mc Ginty's Dead" by Agatha Christie was based on this case, partially.
P. Candice Goddard forensics found out the body was a man. Not a woman. A hundred years later they proved that wasn’t even his wife in the cellar. 😢 they don’t know who it was but it wasn’t her. Also witnesses saw her on a boat later on. She was seen different times in America and her name was written on some documents. She framed him.
This monstrous lie should now be taken down. The several leading characters in the prosecution should be reviled for the monstrous murder they concocted in pursuing Doctor Crippen. The famous flesh recovered was preserved and with modern techniques has been revealed to be of a man. We must now honour the memory of that galant gent.
Re the body in the cellar: If it is true that it has been forensically determined to be male, this lends weight to a book I read more than 20 years ago in which it was revealed that the lead detective had a reputation for fitting people up. Something that was (and still is) common when the police are convinced that someone is guilty, but do not have the evidence to support their belief. At the time, it would have been fairly easy for a senior detective to get hold of a body (or parts of one) to provide the "missing" evidence of murder.
Per the book "THE MILD MURDERER" by TOM CULLEN -Two wks before he was hanged, Crippen wrote a letter- "I am innocent and some day evidence will be found to prove it." DNA has proven that the "body" in the basement, was indeed male. Also Cora's stage name was Belle Elmore--- ten years after the trial a singer with a similar name was registered as living with Cora's sister in New York. Records show that the woman entered the U.S. through Ellis Island from Bermuda in 1910 shortly after Mrs. Crippen disappeared (1920 U.S. Census New York). Ethel LeNeve was acquitted of the murder, left England after the trial, settled in Toronto. She died in 1967 at age 84. To give credit where credit is due the info above is per the novel "CRIPPEN A Novel of Murder" by John Boyne.
In the small town I used to live in (ironically Montrose, Colorado) there was the Crippen Funeral Home that the Crippen family had owned and operated for several decades.
I'm not sure what to think of this case anymore since new evidence creates controversy that the torso was Cora's. And why keep the torso while getting rid of all other parts of the body? Why not just dump her whole body in the sewer or something? It's also unusual for poisoning case to involve dismemberment. A poisoner just makes it look like their victim died of natural causes or whatever and then just walks away. On the other hand, what about that crazy dash across the Atlantic on the Montrose with such amateurish disguises? That does count against Crippen.
Well done 👍 Mr Powell, lot's of new things in this well made piece, there's a movie made with Donald Pleasants , an Julie Edge, it's something that the secretary would have seen before her death,, wow so HE was American also🤔🧐👍🗣️💯 LONDON LOVE'S IT 😍🇬🇧💯👍
Crippen had a son by his first wife . I feel really sad for the boy . What must have happened to him when the news of his father being a murder broke out ? Hope he managed to live an easy and satisfactory life .
Dr Crippen was given an appalling time by his wife for years. She flaunted her lovers in front of him, taunted him and treated him like a slave. The crime was terrible but Crippen was a victim too. Lots of mitigation here.
This is neat… This year was like the olden time version of a car chase on TV rather than a news helicopter overhead… It’s the boat with the radio communicating back-and-forth
@@sach-moadams7014 A past tenant wouldn't explain the label in the clothes :/ I'm more with the boyfriend idea. That would explain why he went on the run with his girlfriend, even using false names and disguises. But imagine, IF it was his wife's boyfriend (or one of them, whatever) and he knew about that but couldn't tell anyone because then he would have sentenced for that, so the only thing he could say was, that it wasn't his wife o.o Or even worse: he did kill his wife but hid her somewhere else and was totally surprised when the body was found. Again, he went on the run with his girlfriend. He must have had a reason for that. it's also a bit unlikely that no one would know where his wife went (friends, family, former boyfriends etc?)
The Crippen case is very sad. Crippen’s wife was vile to her husband. Crippen found love with another lady. It’s not clear that Crippen had actually killed his wife.
U all sound dum he could of divorce her ran with the women he’s having affair with OMG how crazy u all are u Ppl do u no how many men and women have that type of relationship they do not kill so u sound crazy and dum
The body they found wasn't Crippen's wife. It was most likely his wife's lover, since she was having an affaire. The body they found was male. He might of still killed his wife. Who knows... Here's what i think happened. He found out about the affaire got angry and killed them both, but only one of the bodies turned up in the cellar. The story about Crippen being aware of the affaire for a long time is bullshit he made up for the courts. So no one would figure out that he murdered the both of them out of a jealous rage.
nope alive and well in Chicago (bragging she was gonna let him swing), wrote to him while he was in jail and the cops as well as churchill, of all people, intercepted/knew about it.
Le Neve didn't know??? Women NEVER cut their hair in those days, and she WORE A MANS SUIT??....I find this more sad than his butchered wife, She was so devoted, she had a photo of herself put in his coffin. I wonder what he would have done when he was done with with her...
You mean the wife who wrote to him from America during his Murder Trial and told him she was going to let him hang??? Its a good thing the cops in England were SOOOO honest when such a highly valued prisoner got mail right?
Great Story, especially the detective work done by the Captain of the ship !!! Had she just not disguised herself on ship , maybe they would have succeeded in escaping !!
It was very common back then specially considering that with the church so far up every ones rear divorce was still this huge no no. Divorce, means that you loose social standing, you could loose your reputation etc. An affair allowed you to keep more of your standing and still enjoy the company of a person you loved, desired etc and so on.
hm, yes. looks like one of those cases where a divorce would have helped both sides. She could have been with her lover(s) and he could have been with the woman he truly loved. But it wasn't yet the time for divorced to be an accepted method.
From the comments below, it is clear that people don't know that homeopathic doctors were actual trained doctors in their profession. Doctors of western philosophy pushed homeopathic doctors (eastern ideas) out of business by grouping and only accepting western training and degrees. Western doctors treat the symptoms, while eastern doctors look for the cause of the symptoms and treat the cause. That is why our medical care is so crappy. If you notice, today there is an acceptance of eastern philosophy (acupuncture and the like) and health insurance even covers some of these procedures. Why, because it works. Like everything else humans are involved with, it's all about the money.
The worst type of victim blaming. The only proof that Cora repeatedly cheated is from Crippens mouth. She definitely flirted with Bruce but there is no proof she cheated. Read "supper with the Crippens" for a clearer account of their characters. One thing I noticed was that Cora had a lot of friends who thought the world of her. It was thanks to them that Dew got involved. Crippen had no friends. Says a lot about them.
Given what his wife put him through Dr. Crippen should not have been prosecuted. Evil woman she was. She drove him into temporary madness. Can't blame him in the least. Too bad he didn't have his secretary's barrister.
Did they ever prove beyond a shadow of guilt, that HE did it, or was he just the fall guy? One would think after his love, had been tried and found innocent, he would confess? Or maybe he wasn’t sure if his lover did it? I always thought it was an odd case? Just my opinion!
This video leaves too many questions: Introductory sequence why when totally irrelevant to topic? Bruce Miller handsome? "Split trousers"? Entirely impossible for Canadian police to make the arrest? "New world"? Ethel unaware of murder to the jury? Music?
I did Try to look this up regarding what year or Century Alimony started in London, and I Cannot get a Straight Answer what so Ever !!!! Can Anyone help with this question ????? BECAUSE they had No Children together regarding Child Support and I'm Wondering why he would have killed her and just Not Left her. The Only thing I can think of is that Alimony Existed way back then !!! But I can't see when Alimony Actually STARTED in London !!! ANYONE ?????????
@@highmyope-ps2by Different times. Homeopaths were very accepted in the day. Doctors were created to, say, get rid of homeopaths because doctors wanted all the fame and money.
11:14 Dr Crippen admitted in court that he is the man mentioned on the warrant, not that he was guilty or innocent of the crime mentioned in the warrant.
Charles Dickens would have thought the name Crippen ideal for one of his murderous villains . It suggests , creep , creeping , crypt etc. Bye the way , i have just realized i have never heard any one else bear the name .
ikr! I had no clue who Dr. Crippen was until my mum said we were related to him (unsure of specifics, apparently my grampy knows). We were watching a trailer for some crime drama show set in the early 20th century and my mum thought it was going to be about his case (she quickly realized it wasn't) and I replied to her saying that Crippen sounded like a deadass evil name, one that I could only imagine being used in comic books or other forms of fiction. That's when she told me we were related and I started googling him. Wasn't the most pleasant family discovery but very intriguing.
@@misspuppyeyes101 he was actually innocent, modern forensic scientists have proved the flesh in the basement belonged to a man plus the home secretary Winston Churchill recieved a letter from cora in America saying she was alive and well living with her lover. The lead detective on the case was well known for setting people up if he believed they were guilty
This may sound crazy but could the wife of the doctor and her lover have killed some guy, cut him up, dumped the body in the cell and putting lime on it knowing it would help keep the remains. She & her lover split in hopes the Doctor would be held thinking he'd killed his wife? Maybe the Mrs sgined her husband's name for the poison. The body samples still in existence proves that it was a man burried in that celler, & had no trace of posion in the body. If all that IS so & wouldn't you think a doctor would know that just useing lime would help preserve a body and not distory it? 'IF' the Dr. DID do it wouldn't he have used the stuff that would distory the body? Who knows the real truth, but I have my doubts that he killed his wife. I guess we will never know for sure. !!!!! For all we know, MAYBE the doctor's 'lover' killed the wife out of jealousy and maybe the doctor tried to cover it up and took the blame. But if so then how did a 'man's' body get burried in the celler? 🤔 👻🖑
Yet another case where the man gets executed but the woman walks free. C'mon, she wore the dead woman's clothes, and pretended to be her, to cover-up the wife's disappearance. You cannot tell me she wasn't thoroughly complicit in the crime.
Yes Ethel Neve (she added the "Le" bit herself to sound posh) was not a nice woman. I was reading a book which had an interview from a person who actually knew her. Cora seemed a much nicer person, no saint certainly, but a lot more human than the two creepy murderers who did for her.
@@slytheringingerwitch ROFL I love that movie. And much like Andy Dufresne, Crippen too really was innocent. His wife skipped town and went home to America. Census show her living in her sisters home AFTER her supposed death. Isn't that some shit... What a hag... If I were a man I'd be afraid to marry someone like her, she seems like a real black widow.
Filleted and de boned!! I think he snapped after his bad treatment from his wife and killed her, i also think he wasnt an evil man prior to this event, he look quiet and shy, his skill and training to be a doctor helped him commit his only murder, but he has become something very evil since then and i think its due to his name "Dr Crippen" sounds so evil, especially Crippen and add Dr to that and its perfect for a horror writer!
I watch many of these shows. The amount of relevant photos & newspaper articles ( from whatever archives ) was stunning. Easily the best Dr Crippen show I have seen. Thanks for posting\sharing.
Never heard of Dr. Crippen UNTIL a man I worked with told a story about him. Long story short, i work with Dr. Crippen grandson, same last name and all!!!! Crazy.
Maybe its his great grandson. It was.over 100 years ago after all.
They ever get ole Lizzie to exonerate him?
He and Cora had children?
I’m related to dr crippen some how.
My maiden name is crippen
The stock footage and stills are priceless and so is the soundtrack,
Interesting. I love these old crime stories. :)
So Charlotte went to Confession every time she slept with her husband? I can just hear the priest upon her entry into the confessional: "Oh, not you again ..."
You are right because the narrator said slept together instead of sex or sexual intercourse, so she'd be in confession daily.
More likely - what's her telephone number ???????
He enjoid it for sure
goback3spaces Oh gee newly weds would be going to confession twice a day
"Hello Reverend? I think I might be coveting my own wife"
-Ned Flanders to Reverend Lovejoy
I hate to side with a murderer. but Cora belittled her husband, even demanding he bring her and her lovers tea, while in bed. and when Crippen died he asked that a photo of Ethel be placed in his coffin, and years later when Ethel died, she requested a photograph of Crippen be put in her casket, It's obvious they were desperately in love.
he didn't do it, the stupid bitch sent him letter from chi-town telling him all about how she knew he was about to hang for killing her and that she was going to let him swing. Don't know why she didn't think the cops wouldn't get and read that letter first, some women can be so stupid. Even f-in Churchill knew about it and read the letter... Lost all respect for that old fuck when I saw the bio about this case, he let n innocent man die. That and Crippens a local I guess. Could be a cousin for all I know, that's how it was round here in those days. Still are really
@@M.Campbell-Sherwood I never heard this. So in other words, if this is true then this was a total miscarriage of justice and a man was hanged for a crime he didn't commit and he was telling the truth at his trial. Question I have is back in Crippen's day I am sure they could determine the gender of a carcass, even if badly decomposed. How could they miss this important fact?
@@WitchidWitchid they didn't care. It was a botched job to begin with. They had evidence from the cabbie who took Crippen's wife and her possessions from their home to another home, proving she was alive and well. They disregarded it. Jack's ghost was on their back and it was an embarrassment that they didn't and couldn't find him. It made them look bad in the eyes of the public and shamed them so they, I'm sure, felt they HAD to get this killer. I mean it was the biggest case after Jack. They couldn't fail this time God no. Even if the man was innocent and there wasn't really a murder to begin with. You know how fragile the male ego can be, especially when its a cop lol. They probably did go out and find some poor woman who died, whether a prostitute who died naturally or was killed or even faked it with a young mans body and messed it up beyond recognition. Then there's the Med school where you can get bodies or buy one off the a$$e$ who dig them up and sell them to the school's. People were sick and did that a lot back then. Leave their clothes and jewelry and its not grave robbing just take the body. Then sell it. That's most likely where they got the body of "Mrs. Crippen", *snorts derisively* . Research was done in recent years and she was found, via census reports, living in her sisters home here in America, AFTER her supposed MURDER. I tell ya I couldn't believe it when I heard that...
Just because someone treat like shit don’t mean u can kill him I think he killed because he was in love and hated he’s wife so to feel sorry for sounds stupid
I honestly don’t feel he could of left her or divorce so I don’t ah with u my kids was like I left him
Aged 10 my schoolmates & I saw Dr Crippen at Maddame Tussauds, London. We had no idea who he was!
Really enjoyed this.especially the footage.amazing.thankyou.
While Crippen was in custody, Winston Churchill, who was Home Secretary at the time, received a letter from America that claimed to be from Cora Crippen, saying that she was alive, and while she was happy with her new lover in America, that she did not wish her husband to be hanged for her murder. We have no way of knowing if that letter was genuine, but we'll never know, as Winston Churchill destroyed the letter. Winston Churchill should have been sacked and prosecuted for destroying evidence.
How do we know that if Churchill destroyed the letter? -_-
That's very true. I read it as well. DNA was performed on the remains found in the Crippen basement and it was male.
@Mayoforsam yeah and she didn't send it to Churchill she sent it to him (Crippen) bragging that she thought it was funny he was going to swing for his death. Churchill did know bout it though. The family is trying to get the crown to exonerate him because of hit.
There's no proof that the letter was even sent. You just don't like Churchill
He wouldn't have been able to save England later.
Well, whatever you think about the murders, look at the clothes! They're amazing. ... no, I don't think murder is OK. I'm saying look at what a great historical archive these pictures are :)
i get what you are saying, i love history and how everything looked.
I wish I had some older style clothing. I love older styles. They have such charm. Some people today look like they fell out of a dumpster. I love the old bathers too! 😅
That's an amazing amount of forensic work in a case from that time.
Someone thought about the label on the clothes and found out since when that was added. They managed to prove that drugs/toxins were used and which. they matched the scar to the one the wife had had. Very interesting.
I still don't understand why cropping would take time to remove all the bones and bury cora flesh in lime and a dressing gown with a label of the ship where he bought it. Something smells and I'm not talking about the flesh.
Walter Dew was also involved in the Jack the ripper case as a young constable.
Thank you. Very interesting and such a sad story in many ways he fell from glory to rugs. I love these old crimestories.
Absolutely fascinating and so well done ! Thanks
She let him swing for something she had the motif and, quite possibly, the opportunity for. He was so smitten with her that he let her get away with it. What a shame. "Mrs Mc Ginty's Dead" by Agatha Christie was based on this case, partially.
This puts it in a totally different light. I actually feel sorry for him now.
P. Candice Goddard forensics found out the body was a man. Not a woman. A hundred years later they proved that wasn’t even his wife in the cellar. 😢 they don’t know who it was but it wasn’t her. Also witnesses saw her on a boat later on. She was seen different times in America and her name was written on some documents. She framed him.
If he had divorced he would have had to pay her wife.
This monstrous lie should now be taken down. The several leading characters in the prosecution should be reviled for the monstrous murder they concocted in pursuing Doctor Crippen. The famous flesh recovered was preserved and with modern techniques has been revealed to be of a man. We must now honour the memory of that galant gent.
Re the body in the cellar: If it is true that it has been forensically determined to be male, this lends weight to a book I read more than 20 years ago in which it was revealed that the lead detective had a reputation for fitting people up.
Something that was (and still is) common when the police are convinced that someone is guilty, but do not have the evidence to support their belief. At the time, it would have been fairly easy for a senior detective to get hold of a body (or parts of one) to provide the "missing" evidence of murder.
Oooh! Very interesting. Thanks.
Per the book "THE MILD MURDERER" by TOM CULLEN -Two wks before he was hanged, Crippen wrote a letter- "I am innocent and some day evidence will be found to prove it." DNA has proven that the "body" in the basement, was indeed male. Also Cora's stage name was Belle Elmore--- ten years after the trial a singer with a similar name was registered as living with Cora's sister in New York. Records show that the woman entered the U.S. through Ellis Island from Bermuda in 1910 shortly after Mrs. Crippen disappeared (1920 U.S. Census New York). Ethel LeNeve was acquitted of the murder, left England after the trial, settled in Toronto. She died in 1967 at age 84. To give credit where credit is due the info above is per the novel "CRIPPEN A Novel of Murder" by John Boyne.
don't know why those first 10 words have a line through them, it is part of the book.
Very interesting indeed, Sondra b. Thank you.
video.pbs.org/video/1211797061/
Great detective work. The photos are great. Telling a story when the police had scruples.
There's is great doubt now on Crippen's guilt.
The DNA says it was a male found in the cellar ! . So much for the scar found on the torso that proved it was Cora.
@@thekitowl The pajama top was a plant.
In the small town I used to live in (ironically Montrose, Colorado) there was the Crippen Funeral Home that the Crippen family had owned and operated for several decades.
WOW...that's creepily amazing
I'm not sure what to think of this case anymore since new evidence creates controversy that the torso was Cora's. And why keep the torso while getting rid of all other parts of the body? Why not just dump her whole body in the sewer or something? It's also unusual for poisoning case to involve dismemberment. A poisoner just makes it look like their victim died of natural causes or whatever and then just walks away. On the other hand, what about that crazy dash across the Atlantic on the Montrose with such amateurish disguises? That does count against Crippen.
I guess it's been determined that the body was a male
As soon as Spilsbury's name was mentioned I knew that Crippen's future was to be a short one.
Was the most visited waxwork.......until Madam Tussaud’s closed the chamber of horrors.
Well done 👍 Mr Powell, lot's of new things in this well made piece, there's a movie made with Donald Pleasants , an Julie Edge, it's something that the secretary would have seen before her death,, wow so HE was American also🤔🧐👍🗣️💯 LONDON LOVE'S IT 😍🇬🇧💯👍
Crippen had a son by his first wife . I feel really sad for the boy . What must have happened to him when the news of his father being a murder broke out ? Hope he managed to live an easy and satisfactory life .
Taps Ars someone further up/down (?) in the comments apparently work with Crippen’s grandson, so I guess he was ok afterwards.
I use to watch this series all time.. Good Stuff
Great story thanks mate 😀 enjoyed the story.
Marconi was not the inventor of the new "fangled" radio. He stole the patent from Nikola Tesla.
+Felix Burke You must be American to say that.
Tesla was screwed over royally by edison who was known to hire the best people and then steal their ideas, he would then patent them as his own.
Felix Burke
Felix Burke no other way around
Felix Burke oh ok yes ur right. Read wrrong
Wireless technology as old as 1910
I love Roberts voice , Jesus he’s good....
"Jesus" ? Why invoke this name?
@@drspaseebo410 Robert Powell played Jesus in the film Jesus of Nazareth
His best roll was in the Detectives
i enjoyed that thanks for the upload
Dr Crippen was given an appalling time by his wife for years. She flaunted her lovers in front of him, taunted him and treated him like a slave. The crime was terrible but Crippen was a victim too. Lots of mitigation here.
how can i find music like the one at the beginning of this documentary?
The captain really needs his own full documentary.
This is neat… This year was like the olden time version of a car chase on TV rather than a news helicopter overhead… It’s the boat with the radio communicating back-and-forth
Shame that all these years later we now know that he didn't kill anyone.
huh? what?
@@Nico6th Yeah turns out the body was that of a man and most likely a past tenant just like the doctor claimed
His wife's boyfriend?
@@mrs.schmenkman no an earlier tenant that went missing, just like he tried to tell them
@@sach-moadams7014 A past tenant wouldn't explain the label in the clothes :/ I'm more with the boyfriend idea. That would explain why he went on the run with his girlfriend, even using false names and disguises.
But imagine, IF it was his wife's boyfriend (or one of them, whatever) and he knew about that but couldn't tell anyone because then he would have sentenced for that, so the only thing he could say was, that it wasn't his wife o.o Or even worse: he did kill his wife but hid her somewhere else and was totally surprised when the body was found.
Again, he went on the run with his girlfriend. He must have had a reason for that. it's also a bit unlikely that no one would know where his wife went (friends, family, former boyfriends etc?)
The Crippen case is very sad. Crippen’s wife was vile to her husband. Crippen found love with another lady. It’s not clear that Crippen had actually killed his wife.
Lol!!!
U all sound dum he could of divorce her ran with the women he’s having affair with OMG how crazy u all are u Ppl do u no how many men and women have that type of relationship they do not kill so u sound crazy and dum
The body they found wasn't Crippen's wife. It was most likely his wife's lover, since she was having an affaire. The body they found was male.
He might of still killed his wife. Who knows...
Here's what i think happened. He found out about the affaire got angry and killed them both, but only one of the bodies turned up in the cellar. The story about Crippen being aware of the affaire for a long time is bullshit he made up for the courts. So no one would figure out that he murdered the both of them out of a jealous rage.
nope alive and well in Chicago (bragging she was gonna let him swing), wrote to him while he was in jail and the cops as well as churchill, of all people, intercepted/knew about it.
Why would he care that much though? He was deeply in love with his secretary.
He never gave his version or admitted his crime. That would have made him seem more human and not led him to considered the personification of evil.
Crippen sure was unlucky with women.
Le Neve didn't know??? Women NEVER cut their hair in those days, and she WORE A MANS SUIT??....I find this more sad than his butchered wife, She was so devoted, she had a photo of herself put in his coffin. I wonder what he would have done when he was done with with her...
You mean the wife who wrote to him from America during his Murder Trial and told him she was going to let him hang??? Its a good thing the cops in England were SOOOO honest when such a highly valued prisoner got mail right?
That Ethel wasn't a bad-looking girl.
She was viewed as a real beauty back in the day.
Great Story, especially the detective work done by the Captain of the ship !!! Had she just not disguised herself on ship , maybe they would have succeeded in escaping !!
Great detective work by the Capitan of the ship.No cell phones or labtops then.
Did everyone have an affair in the 19th and 20th century?
Not everyone, but it was quite common. No different than today.
It was very common back then specially considering that with the church so far up every ones rear divorce was still this huge no no. Divorce, means that you loose social standing, you could loose your reputation etc. An affair allowed you to keep more of your standing and still enjoy the company of a person you loved, desired etc and so on.
man i love the guys voice LOL
Robert Powell
I do as we'll, and I can remember first hearing him in a war documentary that changed the way I understood the great war's. This guy was awesome
Me too
I always felt sorry for Dr Crippen ,his wife was a cow .
How so?
hm, yes. looks like one of those cases where a divorce would have helped both sides. She could have been with her lover(s) and he could have been with the woman he truly loved. But it wasn't yet the time for divorced to be an accepted method.
This is so awesome 😁
Note to self: QUICK lime!
Iceman lol
Opinionated. "This handsome music hall musician" he was a 4, at best.
Turn the dam music down or better off!
Spilsbuy sent a few innocent people to their deaths. A very arrogant man.
From the comments below, it is clear that people don't know that homeopathic doctors were actual trained doctors in their profession. Doctors of western philosophy pushed homeopathic doctors (eastern ideas) out of business by grouping and only accepting western training and degrees. Western doctors treat the symptoms, while eastern doctors look for the cause of the symptoms and treat the cause. That is why our medical care is so crappy. If you notice, today there is an acceptance of eastern philosophy (acupuncture and the like) and health insurance even covers some of these procedures. Why, because it works. Like everything else humans are involved with, it's all about the money.
Narrated by Robert Powell as in "Jesus" ?
Yes! 😊
As in The 39 Steps too!
Isabelle Proulx: Yes, the same one.
Any1 here 8 years later
The worst type of victim blaming. The only proof that Cora repeatedly cheated is from Crippens mouth. She definitely flirted with Bruce but there is no proof she cheated. Read "supper with the Crippens" for a clearer account of their characters. One thing I noticed was that Cora had a lot of friends who thought the world of her. It was thanks to them that Dew got involved. Crippen had no friends. Says a lot about them.
This HANDSOME MAN MILLER? what did I miss something perhaps wrong photo??
Sarcasm,I would say,was employed..
😵😂😂😂😂😂😵
I wonder if he did on his first wife. A stroke at nine months pregnant?
The opening music is soooo loud and irritating, please get rid of it. Otherwise thank you for great narration and stories.
damn there are more pictures of this dude in existence than there are of me 100 years later.
Given what his wife put him through Dr. Crippen should not have been prosecuted. Evil woman she was. She drove him into temporary madness. Can't blame him in the least. Too bad he didn't have his secretary's barrister.
Absolutely ripping tale 👍
Wait, a quarter of the earth! ! Guess that empire has shrunk a lot since then.
Did they ever prove beyond a shadow of guilt, that HE did it, or was he just the fall guy? One would think after his love, had been tried and found innocent, he would confess? Or maybe he wasn’t sure if his lover did it? I always thought it was an odd case? Just my opinion!
I expected Elmer Fudd to jump up with the cartoon music. Not exactly in keeping with the situation.
a jack the ripper letter was sent from the same street?
Is that true?
I always thought crippin looked a very creepy weird man.
Ah! But that's a slippery trap. Imagine he was an enlightened philosopher, and look at those bright eyes again. Context is a powerful primer, no?
Yeh not unlike that of John Reginald Halliday Christie...
Crippen's wife was the culpable one. An undecent and unreliable spouse.
23:00 What's with the man on the left? It's like he's wearing a mask?
The fact they were both awful doesn't justify this. Murderers killing murderers maybe but.... no matter how annoyjng that person can be to another
The case - 💀
The music - 😊
He did not kill his wife.
never thought he did😕
This video leaves too many questions: Introductory sequence why when totally irrelevant to topic? Bruce Miller handsome? "Split trousers"? Entirely impossible for Canadian police to make the arrest? "New world"? Ethel unaware of murder to the jury?
Music?
I did Try to look this up regarding what year or Century Alimony started in London, and I Cannot get a Straight Answer what so Ever !!!! Can Anyone help with this question ????? BECAUSE they had No Children together regarding Child Support and I'm Wondering why he would have killed her and just Not Left her. The Only thing I can think of is that Alimony Existed way back then !!! But I can't see when Alimony Actually STARTED in London !!! ANYONE ?????????
Wifey was unbearable. No divorce ? Left with no options. hmm
Such a great show
Using lime as opposed to quick lime seems amateurish for a doctor described as being brilliant. She had lots of lovers...perhaps a jilted one?
Crippen was not a proper medical doctor. He was a homeopath.
@@highmyope-ps2by Different times. Homeopaths were very accepted in the day. Doctors were created to, say, get rid of homeopaths because doctors wanted all the fame and money.
The only police chase, also followed by the general public, which was slower than the OJ one!
11:14 He admits the crime. 14:51 he denies it. What is it now?
11:14 Dr Crippen admitted in court that he is the man mentioned on the warrant, not that he was guilty or innocent of the crime mentioned in the warrant.
Ok. When he said "being sought" I thougt it meant he was the guilty one... Thanks for the explanation.
There is no question he murdered her, because that is why he went on the run and in disguise. He was guilty.
Charles Dickens would have thought the name Crippen ideal for one of his murderous villains . It suggests , creep , creeping , crypt etc. Bye the way , i have just realized i have never heard any one else bear the name .
Shame it's all out of focus. Better summaries of this case elsewhere.
❤😮wow that was so interesting I never knew about it but I do know and I will definitely not forget it amen 🙏 rip Dr ❤. 20/24 USA 🇺🇸
Such a sad story l felt sorry for him.
"Dr. Crippen" does sound like a villain's name.
ikr! I had no clue who Dr. Crippen was until my mum said we were related to him (unsure of specifics, apparently my grampy knows). We were watching a trailer for some crime drama show set in the early 20th century and my mum thought it was going to be about his case (she quickly realized it wasn't) and I replied to her saying that Crippen sounded like a deadass evil name, one that I could only imagine being used in comic books or other forms of fiction. That's when she told me we were related and I started googling him. Wasn't the most pleasant family discovery but very intriguing.
@@misspuppyeyes101 he was actually innocent, modern forensic scientists have proved the flesh in the basement belonged to a man plus the home secretary Winston Churchill recieved a letter from cora in America saying she was alive and well living with her lover. The lead detective on the case was well known for setting people up if he believed they were guilty
Dickens would have paid a king s ransom for a name like that for one of his villains .
I found the cartoon style music bizarre considering it was attached to a very dramatic and awful murder case.
Why haven't they made a lavish tv film of this classic murder case.
They could cast.Donald.Pleasance as.the main character.
@@satsumamoon How ironic you say this....Donald Pleasance was Dr. Crippen in a 1964 film of the case.
This may sound crazy but could the wife of the doctor and her lover have killed some guy, cut him up, dumped the body in the cell and putting lime on it knowing it would help keep the remains.
She & her lover split in hopes the Doctor would be held thinking he'd killed his wife? Maybe the Mrs sgined her husband's name for the poison.
The body samples still in existence proves that it was a man burried in that celler, & had no trace of posion in the body.
If all that IS so & wouldn't you think a doctor would know that just useing lime would help preserve a body and not distory it? 'IF' the Dr. DID do it wouldn't he have used the stuff that would distory the body?
Who knows the real truth, but I have my doubts that he killed his wife. I guess we will never know for sure. !!!!! For all we know, MAYBE the doctor's 'lover' killed the wife out of jealousy and maybe the doctor tried to cover it up and took the blame. But if so then how did a 'man's' body get burried in the celler? 🤔 👻🖑
Yet another case where the man gets executed but the woman walks free. C'mon, she wore the dead woman's clothes, and pretended to be her, to cover-up the wife's disappearance. You cannot tell me she wasn't thoroughly complicit in the crime.
Yes Ethel Neve (she added the "Le" bit herself to sound posh) was not a nice woman. I was reading a book which had an interview from a person who actually knew her. Cora seemed a much nicer person, no saint certainly, but a lot more human than the two creepy murderers who did for her.
Edited to the point that were the story not so well known, none of this would make sense.
Crippin, Christie, Smith and Haigh, four murderers who had different ways of disposing of the bodies.
Cept Crippin was innocent. His victim was living well in Chicago, with her family while he swung.
@@M.Campbell-Sherwood Well to quote from the Shawshank Redemption: We're all innocent in here. Lawyer f***ked me!
@@slytheringingerwitch ROFL I love that movie. And much like Andy Dufresne, Crippen too really was innocent. His wife skipped town and went home to America. Census show her living in her sisters home AFTER her supposed death. Isn't that some shit... What a hag... If I were a man I'd be afraid to marry someone like her, she seems like a real black widow.
Who is here because of brief case?
It makes you wonder if he had anything to do with his first wife death.
If Crippen was innocent then the question is why was ethel dresses as a fella on the boat?
Marconi didn't invent the radio he was just quicker than Tesla about taking it public.
In those days , even dentists dressed like the aristocracy .
He wasn't a dentist, but a homoeopath.
@@sayakchakraborty4206 i wes not writlng about Crippen , but about a dentist who was pbotographed , in the video .i think he was also named .
lol Dr.Crippen almost sound like a rap name. Guess that'd be Dr.Crippin though.
crippen is innocent...fact
john gunn please state your case I am interested.
He may not be guilty of his wife's murder, but there's still the male torso in the cellar to account for.
Filleted and de boned!! I think he snapped after his bad treatment from his wife and killed her, i also think he wasnt an evil man prior to this event, he look quiet and shy, his skill and training to be a doctor helped him commit his only murder, but he has become something very evil since then and i think its due to his name "Dr Crippen" sounds so evil, especially Crippen and add Dr to that and its perfect for a horror writer!
He wasn't a properly trained doctor. He was a homeopath.
Except that Crippen was later proven innocent and that the body in his basement was a male.