Someone has been trying to procure a posthumous pardon for Dr.Crippen, as this article describes. That is all very interesting, but the fact remains that Dr. Crippen was guilty as sin. The remains of Cora Crippen that were found buried in the cellar of the house in Hilldrop Crescent were wrapped in a pajama jacket of a kind that the doctor owned. They could not have belonged to someone who lived in the house before the Crippens moved there because they were not manufactured before 1905. The shop that supplied them was able to show the invoice made out to Crippen for two pairs that were delivered to the house. And to cap it all, the companion pajama bottoms to the jacket were found by the police neatly folded in a chest of drawers in Crippen’s bedroom. The remains were identified as belonging to a woman of early middle age and they bore a scar consistent with a particular surgical procedure, an ovarectomy, that Cora Crippen had undergone in the US before the Crippens moved to London. There can be no doubt that the remains in the cellar were hers.
Add to that the circumstantial evidence: Crippen parading his girlfriend in his murdered wife’s jewels and furs, and the way he tried to flee back to America, with his girlfriend disguised as a boy, and his guilt becomes even more obvious. This bid for a pardon was a complete waste of the Court’s time.
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