E305: MURDER - Hawley Crippen (part I)

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History, True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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London, 1910: Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, music-hall performer Belle Elmore, seem to have built the perfect Edwardian life... a tidy house in Holloway, polite manners, and a place in London’s social circle. But behind the facade of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, the marriage is falling apart. In this first part of the story, we look at who the Crippens really were: Hawley’s small-town upbringing in Michigan and his career in homeopathy, and Belle’s ambition to become a star of the London stage.When Belle disappears, and Dr. Crippen’s quiet secretary, Ethel Le Neve, suddenly takes her place, friends get suspicious. Dr Crippen, Hawley Harvey Crippen, Cora Crippen, Belle Elmore, Ethel Le Neve, Walter Dew, 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, London 1910, Edwardian era, homeopathy, Munyon’s Remedies, missing persons, true crime history, historical murder case, Fresh Hell Podcast, British true crime, Edwardian London, Music Hall Ladies Guild, P. T. Barnum comparison, Victorian morality, Crippen case part 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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