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From extramarital affairs to poisoning, murder, dismemberment and an eventual hanging — the case of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen has it all.
It was in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 1910 when anyone last saw his wife alive, a disappearance that kicked off an investigation into their unconventional marriage and eventually led to Crippen being hung for her murder after running off with a lover disguised as a teen boy.
The wife in question was Corrine "Cora" Turner, a performer who used the stage name Belle Elmore, and whom Crippen married in the early 1890s after his first spouse died from a stroke, according to The Telegraph.
Born in Michigan, Crippen was a homeopath working in New York at the time of his marriage to Cora.
In 1900, the couple moved to London while Crippen was a rep for the homeopathic remedies company Munyon’s Remedies, and Cora was an aspiring music hall singer, according to John J. Eddleston’s 2008 book, “A Century of London Murders and Executions.”
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