Victorian Doctor Conspires To Kill Wife | Murder Maps | Real Crime

[@susanjane4784]

Very much enjoyed this one! The costume reenactment along with the narrations was a great mix.

[@ahuddleston6512]

I used to live in Camden Town on the same road as Charles Dickens....Bayham Street. I found this out when I was living there at the local library.

[@Redrum101896]

Just with her singing alone, I was like, "Take her out right now!! She's gotta go." 😂😂😂😂😂

[@leeanneyoungman8028]

Hahaha..your the only person that said it and not thought it..

[@1.800zZzZzZz]

Crippin’ had her Crip-Walking in Hell for her horrible singing.

[@johnnabuzby6103]

Her voice was okay, not the greatest voice I've ever heard, but not the worst either. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. The tune she was singing was a rather charming one though. Perhaps the real Mrs. Crippen's voice was worse, but in this day and age we won't know will we?

[@lizr990]

It funny but not worth going to jail for I sing worst lol

[@xenaires]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Castealle68]

I so love these stories. Very intriguing. Thanks guys 💕💕

[@sarahmariah100]

Thanks!

[@hiddenshadow2105]

Wikipedia says that Cora had an affair but this isn't mentioned here for some reason.

[@Really_Velvet]

The inspector guy reminds me of David Bowie a teeny bit.

[@melxn.masato]

That's what I was thinking!!

[@AS-qg1xu]

Yes!

[@AdamMichalMarkowski]

For sure got some of that style dude had. That coat was lit

[@patsparks8731]

I’m thinking more like James Coburn?

[@BrittMFH]

Whoa! Turns out the DNA doesn't match Cora's descendants and is male? That throws a new spin on it. Thanks, I enjoyed this.

[@reginagilby1101]

Yeah that’s awfully strange

[@minwade5436]

Wonder whose DNA it was. Not even female, how bizarre

[@Janellabelle]

He must have killed someone else too. 😬

[@Pauly421]

Wait really??? That's crazy! 🤔

[@CatalinaIsland-nf8hc]

Perhaps Cora was a man…

[@manfredbartels4124]

Dr. Crippen is one of the characters in Erik Larson's book "Thunderstruck".

[@doctorshell7118]

Yo! So who is the dude they found in the cellar and where’s his wife?!? I did not see that coming.

[@patsparks8731]

The narration of Nicholas Day adds to the sense of mystery while watching these well made episodes. I’m watching all of them.

[@ttf4now]

Fascinating story. Dr. Crippen committed a horrible crime but he was an abused spouse. Even today, male spousal abuse isn’t taken as seriously as abuse against women.

[@Scarlett59319]

Does anyone else just love the narrator?? I feel like he's the nicest guy in real life😆 Like stands up for women n stuff lol

[@melanie3958]

I only recently read a book about Crippen. In the end they spoke about the new DNA evidence and say it’s because lots of males handled the remains and crime scene without any precautions. Part of the remains were also shown to the jury, all men, apparently the same part which dna was tested on. From what I can remember, again the remains weren’t very protected and could have gotten contaminated. It really is a case I’ve been interested in for years and still I’m not sure if he did it or not.

[@GreebleClown]

Thank you, that makes sense. I was wondering about that!

[@Roz-y2d]

Although I think he probably did it I don’t think they proved that he did.

[@caittails]

These recreations are something else, lol

[@andrechristiansen4977]

I just love these 18-19 century murder cases... The decadence and poise of those ol´time limeys is just magnificent... "Oh golly, a murder You say, well then, let´s have a cup of tea and we´ll discuss the matter. Do You use milk and sugar?" hehe... and btw fantastic acting, it puts me right there 100 years later!

[@veronicajade20]

This is a 20th century case.

[@agentxorangexskies]

Murder Mile has an excellent podcast episode about this story as well.

[@CeramicQuill]

Being told that we are not intended to like her singing voice, but I'd love to hear more from Cora. It's a fun voice 😊

[@jeremiahgabriel5709]

Agreed!

[@Jst4fun817]

I'm so addicted to these. 😰

[@tapsars7911]

"Tarara bondeeye . Tarara bondeeye ......." . If the real Mrs. Crippen was anything like this , I do not blame her husband for murdering her .

[@NoBootyBeauty]

😆😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@raoul_duke69]

thank you! i was gonna say that but thought, surely im not alone here. sure enough🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@prettieschicbyflorenceanne3333]

Ouch - Talk about Feel the Burn!

[@TahtahmesDiary]

This recreation did sis ZERO justice 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@adamdaichendt3838]

With that song she automatically had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel with her husband. 😆

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

"Jack the Ripper dominated the headlines..." well ... for a couple of months in 1888, anyway... 😆

[@krunchieKyn]

Ikr

[@flertydig_toys2675]

🥶🥶🥶

[@prettieschicbyflorenceanne3333]

Yeah, just petered out, nobody talks about him these days!

[@kikidee3204]

Crippen such a name dictated he couldn't be anything but a killer it sounds so wicked !

[@joshtemple1913]

Writer Erik Larsen, author of Devil in White City, wrote a non-fiction account of this case in his novel Thunderstruck. I highly recommended it.

[@mademarsi5494]

Narator voice, I like it💗.

[@prettieschicbyflorenceanne3333]

Nicholas Day - check him out in the Netflix series "Myths & Monsters" - It's Incredible. Don't let the silver beard fool you - it is him & his voice & dramatic delivery make the series even more compelling!

[@shirleybezuidenhout2724]

Thanks for all these interesting crime stories, this one is exceptionally good. Thsnks for sharing 👍👍

[@willmfrank]

Since 1976, has there been even ONE television documentary about Victorian-era crime that does NOT feature Donald Rumbelow?

[@Dulcimertunes]

Those eyebrows 🫢

[@julielevinge266]

Can’t understand why he’s made out to be so evil? Yep he bumped off his wife,but apparently she bullied him,held onto all the money & took the piss out of him in front of others. He also made sure his mistress got off,saying she was completely uninvolved? Not exactly Christie??

[@joeshimamura9620]

So you advocate for him bumping off his wife when divorce should have been done instead?

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

That nice copper would make a good David Bowie in the biopic...

[@AS-qg1xu]

💯

[@robinbank5]

Wow, if not for that suspicious inspector this guy would've gotten away with murder.

[@Liitebulb]

The body is male. I don't think he did it.

[@voraciousreader3341]

It doesn’t matter at all to me that DNA testing on the remains from the basement weren’t Crippen’s wife....all that it tells me is that Crippen murdered someone else-a man-and had gotten away with it. After all, the remains found were wrapped in Crippen’s pajamas. It’s also important that his accomplice openly wore his wife’s jewelry and furs after the “disappearance,” which makes the fact of that murder obvious. So, the “mistake” made by the prosecution as regards the remains means that Crippen was held to account for that murder, at least, since his wife’s body was never found.

[@markcarpenter6020]

And how do you know his wife didn't frame him for murder and run off.

[@Liitebulb]

Kicking out your wife is different from murder. The point is, if she was killed, clearly not by him, her murder is still out there

[@notsureiL]

How do you know he murdered someone else? If she framed him she could easily with help hide a dead body inside their home.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@Tailzkip]

Hmm season 2 of 101 Dalmation street hits different....This isn't the Camden Town full of cute puppies I was lead to believe it was...

[@elainevarian8341]

Great intro to the story-perfect voice!!👍

[@gurudru1977]

The whole time the narrator is speaking w a book in his hands I’m thinking...PUT THE BOOK ON THE FREAKIN SHELF!!!!

[@prettieschicbyflorenceanne3333]

But the prop makes me so much more scholarly and dramatic and knowledgeable (looking).

[@Precisionetica]

Dr. Cryppin must’ve been tripping

[@mmedefarge]

They never found the body of Cora but who was the guy in the basement?

[@notsureiL]

Dude we will never know. Maybe a DNA match someday might show the person’s identity. If there are any living relatives around

[@doosra95]

Just opposite there is a secondary school used to be called Holloway Boys school. Kids were all doing the Dr crippen jokes!! 39 Hill Drop Crescent, Camden, London N7 . Love this episode it is so so fascinating.

[@sharonhubbard2035]

Love the young man narrating. Thank you great video.

[@DragonFly-n424]

As terrible as it was for him to kill his wife, I feel for him. Sad .....

[@markcarpenter6020]

The really sad part is that recent DNA tests have shown that wasn't his wife's body they found. Now people think his wife may have actually ran off but framed him for murder on the way out the door

[@Pauly421]

He would have gotten away with it too if not for that meddling ship captain!!!

[@railworkskid9965]

@@Pauly421That captain happens to be Henry George Kendall the captain of the Empress of Ireland

[@Pauly421]

@@railworkskid9965 Really? That's mad if true! The guy certainly had a dramatic life... and death 🚢

[@railworkskid9965]

@@Pauly421 it actually is this was 4 years before Kendall took command of the Empress of Ireland during the manhunt he was in command of the SS Monstrose the ship that Dr Crippen and his lover Le Neve were on. Also Kendall survived the sinking

[@christophersmardz8196]

it's amazing the telegraph caught him for murder but just a few years later it didn't stop over 1100 people from dying on the titanic crazy man crazy 😲😲😲😲

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Better liked by her friends than husband? Kinda like Shannan Watts. Concerned friends taught the husband these dudes grossly misinterpreted how unlikeable their wives really were 💁🏾‍♀️

[@notsureiL]

People put up different faces. Maybe a really good friend, nice person out in public. Horrible wife behind closed doors.

[@kymmacdonald685]

Cora sounded like she was abusive to him …

[@SpeccyMan]

I don't believe Ethel knew. Her only mistake in all of this was to fall in love with a scoundrel.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

She knew, she was wearing Cora's jewellery and living in her house, why would she agree to dress up in boys clothes? She never tried to defend him after she was acquitted, or tried to clear his name after he was found guilty.

[@NoBootyBeauty]

Wow, how short-sighted are you, Nick B?

[@prettieschicbyflorenceanne3333]

If Male DNA not Cora's relation, did she set up cheating hubby to hang? Were Head/Limbs/Sex Organs removed to make Victim seem Female? Were Pectoral Muscles also excised to imply breast removal? Maybe Crippen murdered Cora/dumped HER body, murdered man nosing round too much & stowed HIM in house, then did runner to Canada. Cops not stupid/followed in faster boat/got to Canada first + shaving didn't hide his tell-tale eyes & Ethel didn't pass muster as boy: Fate's a Bitch!

[@kikidee3204]

Are you a policeman in real life?

[@Janellabelle]

She knew SOMETHING shady went down considering she was dressed as a boy in disguise on the ship ride to Quebec.

[@donna7873]

The narrator looks like Michael Caine & Prince Andrew combined . Very distracting

[@paulhiggins1577]

And a bit of Edward Woodward

[@xrisku]

Sounds like he needed the Innocence Project.

[@jeremypitchford140]

Be honest we all had a hard time feeling sorry for her 😐 😆

[@Pauly421]

With that singing... 😂

[@StephanieFlynn-y3i]

I really don't believe that he did it. And the "body" that was found in the basement wasn't even female.

[@himomimfamous]

Yep. I think she really resented him, wasn’t even attracted to hjm and wanted to get away. The body in the basement however, is another story.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

That's something you can't say. Over 100years later, the evidence is almost certainly tainted. DNA wasn't even dreamt of in those days, forensic science was really in its infancy!

[@pioneercynthia1]

My Grandma (1902-2001) used to sing "Ta Ra Ra Boom Dee Ay" to us when we were tiny!

[@suzyworster8193]

I read a book about Dr. Crippen. It was fascinating.

[@Liitebulb]

I thought in the end this guy was innocent of murder after later analysis. His circumstances were suspicious which is why he left

[@backstagecam5082]

The acting in this is so suberb I began to long for theatre. If only theatre wasn't so overpolitized here in Finland.

[@alanaadams7440]

It's very expensive here in the US

[@honorladone8682]

Thanks !!! Philadelphia USA

[@OUTTA-TYME88]

Yes, he made mistakes Before & After Cora's disappearance. Idiotic decisions. But that doesn't make him a murderer. Poor chap. Maybe he really was innocent.

[@addie_is_me]

Didn’t they eventually find his wife buried on his property? You kind of make it sound like she asked for it. He is the killer she is the victim. They had divorce then.

[@AS-qg1xu]

Later DNA tests showed thr body was mle

[@sandibaker5298]

I’m not condoning murder, but she seems like she was a real piece of work. I mean, ignoring her husband and commencing to playing the piano… I actually felt sorry for him!

[@suzyfarnham3165]

I have so many books on this murder and I always wanted the ending to change so Ethel and him could just sail off and find happiness!!

[@tinyGrim1]

Thank you

[@chrisblair4496]

Though probably unintentional, Murder Maps' reenactment of the events really made Crippen feel like a sympathetic character and his wife seem like a narcissist with no time for her husband's wants and needs.

[@bobbymenon4057]

Thats the truth

[@emilykeane9544]

Yeah I'm not really concerned with how she was portrayed but the fact that people in the comments seem to think the fact that she was rude or didn't like her husband as good enough reason to kill her is very disturbing

[@CowMaster9001]

​@@emilykeane9544how a spouse treats their partner in public is usually much better than how they treat them in private. A man who is a victim of IPV has as much right to lethal self defense as a woman in the same situation.

[@stephanieglisson3605]

Is the narration done by the same gentleman who does City Confidential on A & E?

[@tuxiclassicpage]

No, the host of this show is British actor Nicholas Day. Paul Winfield was the first narrator of City Confidential, followed by Keith David and then Mike Colter.

[@Pauly421]

From Wiki: "Corrine "Cora" Turner,[7] who performed under the stage name Belle Elmore, and was born Kunigunde Mackamotski to a German mother and a Polish-Russian father. She was a would-be music hall singer who openly had affairs..." Damn. Kinda wish the two love birds had got away with it lol.

[@samba5168]

Why would Ethel disguise as a boy? She was much younger than Crippen, why not make the story more believable and board the ship as his “daughter”?

[@pheart2381]

Because as his daughter she wouldn't have been able to share his cabin. Two men could share a cabin without drawing too much attention.

[@danielwebster5748]

I have seen this story before once you see the guy's face it's impossible to mistake him for anybody else

[@trixiestterror]

your script and your narration could match xD

[@Mrrossj01]

If the DNA taken does not support the conviction evidence, why is Crippen guilty?

[@AS-qg1xu]

The DNA test was done in modern times, long after these people died, no?

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

Because he killed her perhaps?

[@msatxgault560]

Reenacted by Whitehall 1212 from detective POV; & Reenacted by The Black Museum & also Murder Most Foul from the victim/criminal POV

[@Roz-y2d]

Does anyone know why they came to London? Especially as his qualifications weren’t recognised in the UK. Seems a bit fishy to me!

[@lyndawilliams4570]

Wait - the DNA later proved it was a man and not Cora’s body? How can you make that last statement then??

[@inggridchristy2006]

Ignoring and disrespecting her husband like that, I can't say I feel sorry for cora.

[@donna7873]

This was great but Oddie was better!!

[@iamme6773]

Could he maybe have killed both his wife and a man? Possibly her lover? That could explain the DNA.

[@markcarpenter6020]

Or his wife killed her lover in a spat and framed her husband for it.

[@Liitebulb]

@@markcarpenter6020 that's what I thought. It wouldn't be the first married couple who doesn't like eachother.

[@magicchirp1714]

​@@markcarpenter6020why did he lie than ? And bring his side peice immediately to live in ?

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@magicchirp1714 because he knew he would look guilty as hell. And that's if he knew she killed him. He might have just thought his wife ran off. (And didnt lie but told what he thought was the truth) And if your wife left you why wouldn't you move in your lover?

[@ranuelthebard3751]

I just realized that Neal Gaiman must have named the character in Sandman Ethel Cripps as a hat tip to this case.

[@biehdc]

>**was** a dangerous place lmao

[@robertdaniels-lane7321]

To this very day, are we completely sure that Jack was a man? What if there were actually more than one “Jack” operating at one time? What if Jack was actually a police constable? Questions we all wish we had the answers to. 👀

[@virginiawolfe2581]

Or Jacqueline, maybe?

[@marymoore3585]

Seems like I've seen this address before..unlucky it is...

[@christophersmardz8196]

he. was crazy to move his side piece in so soon after 👀🔪🔪🔪🏠🧐her thinking with the wrong Head my man. close but no cigar.

[@CurlyCookies]

❤❤ I love this esp this my 3rd time watching it .. 😂 ..

[@laineylynn3249]

This was my Great Grandfather!

[@Janellabelle]

How many children did he have?

[@susanwilliams4953]

Seems like her singing drove him crazy also.

[@prometheusunbound7628]

I read the book "Thunderstruck," by Erik Larson, which weaves this story with that of Marconi's establishment of wireless telegraphy. Very well done. Here, however, I don't care for the "characters" in the show breaking the fourth wall. It's off-putting.

[@keepingitwild5994]

I also find it off-putting. But, they've only introduced it in these series. It was much nicer in the previous ones.

[@He4venlyBody]

best scri[pt-writer ever! haha loved it

[@msatxgault560]

There's also a movie. Somewhere.

[@SteveJauncey]

Inspector Drew is buried in Uphill church Somerset

[@dylvasey]

The young actress does a great job in this.

[@tamtamtamtam340]

First time I pity a killer.. Sush a poor helpless man I belive he felt cornered by his strong wife like a cat_mouse situation

[@Sina.cc11]

The background music is loud and distracting.

[@raidersofexploration6907]

Medical detectives!

[@lelostimulus9995]

Lol Cora was awesome and her singing was swell. He couldn't tame her so he killed her. He couldn't tame himself, adulterer.

[@toniwilliams5330]

Sounds like the original version of Gone Girl edwardian style

[@meeriann]

that was my thought too. I said: what if she's actually alive somewhere lol and so the DNA was male's. would explain aaaaa lotttt. never piss off a woman. what if...

[@biggbatt]

Looking for a doctor who told ppl he would smuggle them out of Germany for pay and killed them instead anybody?

[@timepoet77]

Nicholas Day was right about Vulcana. Don't mess with her.

[@pheart2381]

She had six children,so she couldn't have been that scary.

[@virgilicianame5808]

Soooo who was the body in the house?!? What if she really did run off like he said? And the reason he ran was bc he had offed a man and hid the body, and was afraid THAT body would be found so they ran

[@TalentGumbi]

Just saw this on Oh Well I Never. Interesting

[@toonvdwielen596]

Cut the ' music'!

[@somniumisdreaming]

Hang on the dna shows male remains? They skipped over that quickly.

[@master24stix58]

Is it just me or is the Walter Dew ( policeman ) hot ?😉😊☺

[@josephmiller9424]

If this doctor had been around at the same time as The Ripper he might have been looked at he had all the background they said the killer had but he was still in America at the time of the killings.

[@karenmcdonald7801]

Great programme. Crippen was innocent though, the body wasn't Cora, it wasn't even a woman.

[@alexnamibia]

In those years when people where hanged, I would never commit any crime, let alone steal a sweet from the store.

[@wendyerskine6951]

I feel sorry for him. Cora was revolting.

[@rollmeister]

I can't blame him to be honest

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Way too many ads! I can’t listen to this.