287: Stranger than Fiction: Dr. Crippen
Corpus Delicti
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jen. |
| 0:25.0 | And this is Lindsay. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome back to Stranger Than Fiction at the Corpus Delicti podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | We're excited. |
| 0:31.5 | We've got a few more of these and then we'll look into other types of series. |
| 0:37.3 | But this one I came across and it's got some |
| 0:42.2 | twist and turns and it's got some of the what were you thinking moments. I will say this one got me. |
| 0:49.1 | It's just basic story until the end. And then I was like, oh, I didn't see that one coming. |
| 0:54.1 | It's got a hard twist. Hold on to your seats because there is going to be some things in the |
| 1:00.0 | story that make you go, all right, we're going to go to London. It's in the early 1920s. And like |
| 1:06.1 | we said before, before you pass judgment, just wait until the end. In the early years of the 20th century, |
| 1:13.0 | there are a few men in London that seemed less remarkable, a, you wouldn't even notice them |
| 1:20.3 | on the street than Dr. Holly Crippen. He was very small in stature, soft voice, a very mild manner. He could walk |
| 1:31.3 | through Walmart today and nobody's going to notice him. He just blends into the background. |
| 1:38.0 | He was born in Michigan in 1862. He trained as a homeopathic physician. He received a graduate degree at the Cleveland |
| 1:47.7 | homeopathic medical college. He met and married Charlotte Jane, who died of a stroke in |
| 1:56.2 | 1890. So right now, first wife mysteriously died of a stroke, and he decided to let his parents raise |
| 2:04.4 | their only son. And he picks up and he moves to New York City. So when he's in New York, he meets a woman |
| 2:13.0 | named Cora Turner, who would become his second wife, and they married in 1894. |
| 2:20.8 | We're going to talk a lot more about her. |
| 2:23.6 | So together, they moved to London, and by the time he settled in London, this is about 1900, |
| 2:30.3 | his career had shifted more towards selling medicines rather than practicing with the actual |
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