Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New Light on an Old Murder

In 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen was hanged for poisoning and dismembering his wife, then burying her under his house. The man behaved in a suspicious manner, to say the least, but he died protesting that he hadn't killed his wife and the body wasn't her. DNA evidence has now shown he was right. It was someone else. HERE'S the story. Of course, the unanswered question remains. Who was she and how did she get there? What became of Cora Crippen, for that matter? We may never know.