Dr Crippen was innocent!

[Mon Ami Mate]

Blimey!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347642/CS...

[Jasandjules]

Well, I am not up to speed on this case, however surely if there were human remains found, there are fairly strong chances that he killed that person instead?

[tubbystu]

And if it wasn't his wife's body in the cellar, and he hadn't killed her and disposed of the body elsewhere, why didn't she come forward at some point.

Even if it was long after the execution she could have done a great deal with the News Chronicle or whatever was the leading scandal rag of the day.

Haven't our forensic experts got better things to do, before they get sold off, than faff about with a 100yr old case ? Why now ? Bristol still has a murderer on the loose, surely they should be spending every moment to find anything that can help the police investigation.

What are they going to do. Dig up the body and apologise, and then charge it with adultery ? A far more serious crime than murder in Edwardian social-societies eyes.

Or be forced pay £ooo's in compensation to the surviving rellies ?

[eldar]

George Davis was innocent, too. Except when he wasn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davis_%28armed...

[ExChrispy Porker]

tubbystu said:

And if it wasn't his wife's body in the cellar, and he hadn't killed her and disposed of the body elsewhere, why didn't she come forward at some point.

Even if it was long after the execution she could have done a great deal with the News Chronicle or whatever was the leading scandal rag of the day.

Haven't our forensic experts got better things to do, before they get sold off, than faff about with a 100yr old case ? Why now ? Bristol still has a murderer on the loose, surely they should be spending every moment to find anything that can help the police investigation.

What are they going to do. Dig up the body and apologise, and then charge it with adultery ? A far more serious crime than murder in Edwardian social-societies eyes.

Or be forced pay £ooo's in compensation to the surviving rellies ?

The scientists are from the University of Michigan. It's nothing to do with our forensic experts.

[madala]

...innocent....yeah sure...and the moon is made of blue cheese.....

[Dr Jekyll]

madala said:

...innocent....yeah sure...and the moon is made of blue cheese.....

The only real evidence against him was that the body was supposed to be his wife and was found in his house. If there is doubt about the identity of the body then guilt is hardly a foregone conclusion.

[whitetiger]

Pfft. Next you'll be saying there wasn't a shooter on the grassy knoll.

[jeff m]

Crippen and his wife had no children together.
So any American Crippenite would not be able to supply a sample for testing.
Any Crippen decendants would have come from an earlier child, and along with those from the Mayflower would appear to have spawned half the country.

This sort of think usually precedes a book release.

And as far as "it was not female" I think even Nursey would have spotted that it either did or didn't have a willy.

Edited by jeff m on Sunday 16th January 19:08

[wolves_wanderer]

ExChrispy Porker said:

tubbystu said:

And if it wasn't his wife's body in the cellar, and he hadn't killed her and disposed of the body elsewhere, why didn't she come forward at some point.

Even if it was long after the execution she could have done a great deal with the News Chronicle or whatever was the leading scandal rag of the day.

Haven't our forensic experts got better things to do, before they get sold off, than faff about with a 100yr old case ? Why now ? Bristol still has a murderer on the loose, surely they should be spending every moment to find anything that can help the police investigation.

What are they going to do. Dig up the body and apologise, and then charge it with adultery ? A far more serious crime than murder in Edwardian social-societies eyes.

Or be forced pay £ooo's in compensation to the surviving rellies ?

The scientists are from the University of Michigan. It's nothing to do with our forensic experts.

I love the idea that a load of scientists are working on the Bristol case then their boss comes in and says "Right, stop that, we need to re-investigate this 100 year old murder."

[Derek Smith]

eldar said:

George Davis was innocent, too. Except when he wasn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davis_%28armed...

I went to a City of London CID officer's 'going away do' at a pub on the south side of Blackfriars Bridge at the height of the Geo Davis is innocent farce. The DC, noted for his grandstanding and being a bit of a poser, turned up with a woman on his arm who was instantly recognisablem, if the reaction of the crowd was anything to go by. It was Rosa Davis. I'd only just joined so it must have been after the Headingly 'incident'.

[Dr Jekyll]

jeff m said:

And as far as "it was not female" I think even Nursey would have spotted that it either did or didn't have a willy.

Apparently it didn't have a head either, and was missing at least one leg, so they didn't want to draw any hasty conclusions.