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6 unusual facts about Hawley Harvey Crippen


A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Jack is now worried that Humphries is a serial killer, due to his first name being the middle name of one of the subjects for "Decades of Death".

Diss

Ethel Le Neve born 1883 on Bryars Lane (off Victoria Road) was the mistress of Hawley Harvey Crippen - better known as Dr Crippen, who murdered his wife Cora Crippen in 1910.

El Esqueleto de la señora Morales

Arthur Machen's original 1927 essay, "The Islington Mystery" which can be found in his collection The Cosy Room was based largely on the case of the famous murderer Dr. Crippen.

Hawley Harvey Crippen

In the song "Coffee Homeground," when Kate Bush sings, "Pictures of Crippen lipstick smeared," she implies that Hawley Crippen is somewhat of an idol to the song's Arsenic and Old Lace-esque murderesses.

The murder inspired Arthur Machen's 1927 short story "The Islington Mystery" which in turn was adapted as the 1960 Mexican film El Esqueleto de la señora Morales.

James M. Munyon

He employed a staff of chemists and physicians, one of them Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen.


Melville Macnaghten

When Henry was appointed Commissioner in 1903, succeeding Sir Edward Bradford, Macnaghten was appointed Assistant Commissioner (Crime) and became involved in many of the most famous cases in the history of the Metropolitan Police, including the Hawley Harvey Crippen case and the Farrow double murder case, which resulted in the conviction and hanging of the Albert and Alfred Stratton largely on the basis on fingerprint evidence.


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