meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Phantasmal Crime 3 - The Infamous Dr. Crippen

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Doctors swear an oath to do no harm. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen may have broken that oath after starting an affair and killing his wife. Did he commit the crime for which he was hanged? Murders tend to leave spiritual residue and his old residence seems to have some kind of imprint left upon it. Join me as I share about the infamous Dr. Crippen!

Intro and Outro music: Bad Players - Licensed under a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, single-site, worldwide, royalty-free license agreement with Muse Music c/o Groove Studios.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.0

True crime can be strangely fascinating.

0:18.0

This true crime is odd, macabre and haunted.

0:22.0

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

0:25.0

Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.

0:31.0

Husband kills wife.

0:33.0

This is the classic true crime tale.

0:36.0

The spouses of murder victims are always the first to be scrutinized as suspects.

0:41.0

And for good reason.

0:42.0

The CDC did a study in 18 states of murdered women from the years 2003 to 2014,

0:48.0

and more than half were murdered by a former or current partner or family or friend of that partner,

0:54.0

and 93% of those cases were current or former partners.

0:58.0

Amy Crippin was a successful homeopathic doctor in the early 1900s, and his wife Cora went missing.

1:04.0

All eyes focused on Dr. Crippin, as the search for his wife began.

1:09.0

The murder of Cora Crippin and the trial that followed became international news.

1:22.0

The Chamber of Horrors closed in April of 2016 at Madame Tussauds in London.

1:27.0

Part of that exhibit was a wax figure of Dr. Holly Harvey Crippin.

1:31.0

Holly Crippin was born in Coldwater, Michigan in September of 1862.

1:36.0

He was a short man, standing only 5-3, and had what were described as very unusually buggy eyes.

1:42.0

Crippin decided to pursue medicine and started at the Michigan School of Homeopathic Medicine,

1:47.0

and then moved to the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, from which he graduated in 1884.

1:53.0

He married a woman named Charlotte in 1887, and they had a son named Holly Otto.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Diane Student, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Diane Student and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.