There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird religious life.

Morning.

A cop of murder.

Don't act suspicious.

It's something you hear in any crime television show or heist movie.

If you don't act suspicious, no one will suspect you.

On November 23, 1910, a man was executed for a murder.

A murder that, had he not acted so strangely and fled the country, may have never even been found.

So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Howley Harvey Crippin, or Dr. Crippin, as he would grow to be cold, was born on September

11, 1862 in Coldwater, Michigan.

He was a good student and quickly worked his way through school and graduated from the Cleveland

Homeopathic Medical College in 1884, intent on becoming a homeopath. After the death of his

first wife and leaving his two-year-old son with his parents in California,

Holly moved to New York and began his own practice.

Two years after his wife died, he married a woman named Corinne Cora Turner, or as she was known on stage in the music calls, Belle Elmore.

Dr. Crippin eventually moved him and his new wife to England,

where his medical licensure was not sufficient enough to practice medicine. So he worked at a

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