Murder & homicide · 1910 · Edwardian

Dr Crippen and the Cellar Murder

American doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife Cora at their home in Hilldrop Crescent, north London, in 1910 and buried her remains in the cellar. He fled across the Atlantic with his lover Ethel Le Neve and became the first criminal caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy. He was hanged at Pentonville in November 1910.

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