Murder Mystery of Cora Crippen-- Crippen was a homeopathic physician in New York City when he wed Cora Turner AKA Belle Elmore in 1892. In contrast to her meek, gentle, diminutive husband, Cora Crippen was intimidating and extravagant. After they moved to London in 1897, she performed as a music hall singer and also had affairs with several other men, while he sold patent medicines. He was aided in his business by a young secretary, Ethel Le Neve, who eventually became his mistress. Crippen’s wife disappeared in January 1910, the month after telling him she planned to leave him and to withdraw their savings from the bank. Crippen explained her disappearance to her friends by saying that she had gone on a visit to the United States; later he published an announcement that she had died there. Meanwhile, Le Neve moved in with Crippen and accompanied the doctor in public wearing Cora Crippen’s jewelry and furs. Suspicions were raised, and Crippen received a visit from Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard. Crippen told the police that his wife had left him to live with another man. By the time Dew visited the Crippen house and ordered a thorough search of the house, which led to the discovery of human remains in a hole in the basement. An autopsy and forensic analysis identified the remains as of Cora Crippen, who had been poisoned, then dismembered. In July 1910 Crippen boarded the SS Montrose to Canada with Le Neve, who wore boy’s clothes and pretended to be his son. The ship’s captain recognized the pair and notified his superiors via wireless telegraphy. Dew pursued and overtook the fugitive pair on a faster ship to Canada, where he arrested them. The couple were returned to London, where they went on trial in October 1910. Crippen was found guilty of the murder, and he was hanged the following month; Le Neve was found not guilty. The case of Crippen has always raised questions. 1.)Were the remains Cora? Experts have since examined Spilsbury's slides and said they could not be certain they showed scar tissue. Further, 2.) If the remains were those of Cora, what happened to the rest of the body? ------------------- #forensicscience #murdermistery #casestudy https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-WXimJKXu/?igshid=1a8gqqx50c89f
