The Notorious Dr Crippen | Why Belle Still Gets Blamed
4/22/202636 min
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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First 90 secondsAlice Levine· Host0:00
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Matt Ford· Host0:11
And I'm Matt Ford.
Alice Levine· Host0:12
And this is British Scandal, an Audible Original. [music] So Matt, in summary, we've met Dr. Crippen, found a corpse, followed him and his typist over the Atlantic, heard him deny murdering his wife, and then he got hanged. What have you learned?
Matt Ford· Host0:37
Oh, a number of things. Stick with the NHS. [laughs] Stick with my wife. [laughs] Stick with my natural teeth.
Alice Levine· Host0:43
[laughs] And are you an all-time stan of Inspector Dew?
Matt Ford· Host0:47
Um, I do question some of his choices. I mean, dressing up as Sherlock Holmes while undercover on a boat wasn't his greatest moment, but all things considered, he caught Crippen. Yes, I'm a fan.
Alice Levine· Host1:00
A shining star in the force. But telling the story, I think you will agree, opened up a lot of questions. Not a straightforward one. One of them being, are we 100% sure that Crippen actually did it? Was Dew right? So I thought we could enlist an expert who knows this story probably better than anyone else in the whole world. We're speaking to historian and author Hallie Rubenhold after this.
Speaker 21:25
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