Witness History
Witness History
The Case of Dr Crippen
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January 18, 2019
12 minutes
Available for over a year
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)