Podcast Ep 181
Dr. Crippen and the Wireless Arrest
The first murder suspect ever caught by transatlantic radio.
London, 1910. Cora Crippen disappears. Her husband's mistress is seen wearing her jewellery. Then Hilldrop Crescent gets dug up, and Dr. Crippen and his disguised mistress board a steamer for Quebec — not realising the captain has just installed a Marconi wireless set.
Show notes
We trace the chase across the Atlantic, the 2007 DNA test that called the conviction into question, and the ongoing forensic argument about whose remains were actually in that cellar.
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