The Notorious Dr Crippen | Why Belle Still Gets Blamed | 4
British Scandal
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Historian Hallie Rubenhold has spent years dissecting the case of Hawley Harvey Crippen and she's here to clear a few things up.
Hallie tells Alice and Matt why she believes there's no real doubt about his guilt, the twisted reason why his victim, Belle Elmore ended up cast as a villain, and why true crime fans are still buying into the myth.
And his mistress, Ethel Le Neve? Hallie says her role in the crime deserves a closer look.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Alice Levine. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Matt Ford. |
| 0:05.6 | And this is British Scandal, an audible original. |
| 0:19.1 | So, Matt, in summary, we've met Dr Crippen, found a corpse, |
| 0:22.9 | followed him and his typist over the Atlantic, |
| 0:25.1 | heard him deny murdering his wife, and then he got hanged. |
| 0:28.9 | What have you learned? |
| 0:30.2 | Oh, a number of things. |
| 0:31.3 | Stick with the NHS. |
| 0:32.6 | Stick with my wife. |
| 0:34.2 | Stick with my natural teeth. |
| 0:36.5 | And are you an all-time Stan of Inspector Dew? |
| 0:41.3 | I do question some of his choices. |
| 0:43.3 | I mean, dressing up with Sherlock Holmes while undercover on a boat wasn't his greatest moment. |
| 0:48.3 | But all things considered, he caught Crippin. |
| 0:51.7 | Yes, I'm a fan. |
| 0:53.3 | A shining star in the force. |
| 0:55.0 | But telling the story, I think you will agree, opened up a lot of questions, not a straightforward |
| 0:59.1 | one, one of them being, are we 100% sure that Crippin actually did it? |
| 1:05.8 | Was due right. |
| 1:06.9 | So I thought we could enlist an expert who knows this story probably better than anyone else in the whole world. |
| 1:13.6 | We're speaking to historian and author Hallie Rubenhold after this. |
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