The Case of Dr Crippen

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How one of the most notorious murderers in Edwardian London was captured as he fled to Canada. Listen to an astonishing BBC archive account of his arrest and hear from Dr Cassie Watson, a historian of forensic medicine and crime, about why the case of Dr Crippen lived so long in the public's memory. Photo: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen (Getty Images)

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1:04.7	sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness podcast from the BBC World Service
1:10.5	with me Alex Last and in today's episode we go back more than a hundred years
1:15.4	to tell the story of one of the most notorious murders in Edwardian London and how a
1:21.3	revolutionary new technology was used to capture the chief suspect.
1:26.0	It's the story of Dr. Crippin.
1:29.0	His wife had vanished. I think he thought that he'd committed the perfect murder.
1:37.0	On July 16, 1910, a warrant for this child in London for the arrest of Dr.
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