"Dr. Crippen (1962 film) Dr. Crippen is a 1962 British biographical film directed by Robert Lynn and starring Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne and Samantha Eggar. The film's plot concerns the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. The cinematography was provided by Nicolas Roeg. The film ostensibly covers Crippen’s trial but the story is fleshed out with flashbacks to the doctor’s relationship with his coarse, overbearing wife and his affair with a young mistress. Bosley Crowther in ""The New York Times"" wrote, ""well, one must give good scores to Mr."
"a suspect for this heinous crime. An independent observer points out that the case did not become public until after the remains were found. In December 2009, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, having reviewed the case, declared that the Court of Appeal will not hear the case to pardon Crippen posthumously. In the Museum of Automata in the Tibidabo Amusement Park in Barcelona, there is a piece that recreates the execution of Dr. Crippen. The machine dates from 1921 and is fully operational. A waxwork of Crippen can be seen in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds in London."
"Alexander Lipmann-Kessel ""Lipmann Kessel"", MBE, MC, FRCS (19 December 1914 – 5 June 1986), was a famous orthopaedic surgeon and Second World War medical officer, often known by his nickname of Lippy. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, he was involved at the Battle of Arnhem where at the time he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), assigned to the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance. He is credited with saving the life of Brigadier John Winthrop Hackett Junior when he operated on him for a severe abdominal wound at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Arnhem. Kessel had the"
"northern New York and Canada. Dr. Slepian was the fourth doctor and up to that time the seventh person in the USA to be murdered for performing abortions. Following Dr. Slepian's murder, Kopp fled the U.S., but was arrested in France and extradited. He was tried and convicted of second-degree murder in Buffalo and is currently serving a 25 years to life term of imprisonment. The Ani DiFranco song ""Hello Birmingham"", from her 1999 album ""To The Teeth"", was written as a response to the Slepian murder. Barnett Slepian Barnett Abba Slepian (April 23, 1946 – October 23, 1998) was"
"Ethel Le Neve Ethel Clara Neave (22 January 1883 – 9 August 1967), known as Ethel Le Neve, was the mistress of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, a homeopath hanged for the murder and mutilation of his wife in 1910. She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the eldest child of Walter William Neave and Charlotte Anne Neave (""née"" Jones), Ethel was hired as a typist by Crippen in 1900 and was his mistress by 1905. After the murder of Crippen's wife, Cora, they fled the country on the on which the couple aroused the suspicion of the ship's master, who telegraphed"
"time: 42 minutes; first aired: September 2018. Gregory Scarpa Gregory Scarpa Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) nicknamed The Grim Reaper and also The Mad Hatter, was an American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and a veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 80 murders from the early 1950s through 1992. Scarpa is believed by the FBI to have murdered 100"
"subsequently fled, it was Dew who tracked him down. Despite claiming that he was Harms' near identical cousin Henry Clifford, a pretence he maintained even when confronted by the wife he had previously abandoned, Friedlauski/Harms was sentenced to six years penal servitude for fraud and bigamy. Doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen was an American, born in Michigan in 1862. He qualified as a doctor in 1885 and worked for a patent medicine company. Coming to England in 1900, he lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, with his second wife Cora Turner, better known by her stage name of 'Belle Elmore'. After"
"Gregory Scarpa Gregory Scarpa Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994) nicknamed The Grim Reaper and also The Mad Hatter, was an American capo and hitman for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and 80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and a veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico. Scarpa was responsible for committing three murders in 1991 and is suspected to have committed a minimum of 80 murders from the early 1950s through 1992. Scarpa is believed by the FBI to have murdered 100 to 120 people. Scarpa was born to"
"Józef Cyppek Józef Cyppek (born August 20, 1895 in Opole - November 3, 1952) was a Polish murderer and suspected serial killer, called the ""Butcher of Niebuszewo"". He was sentenced to death and executed for the murder of Irena Jarosz, but it is suspected he committed other crimes. Józef Cyppek was born in Opole in 1895. He was a locksmith by profession. Since the outbreak of the First World War he worked as a locksmith on the railroad. In 1915 he was appointed to the army, losing his leg during military service. He spent two years in hospitals. At the"
"physician Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel Le Neve had fled England after the circumstances around his wife's death were questioned. After a body was found in the basement of Crippen's north London residence, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter Dew sought the couple for murder charges. One theory had the couple sailing from Dover on , but when inspected in New York on arrival, Crippen and Le Neve were not to be found. The fleeing couple had instead sailed on the ""Montrose"" from Antwerp on 20 July. Crippen, identified on ""Montrose"" after the vessel received a description of the pair"
"a German mother and a Polish-Russian father. She was a would-be music hall singer who openly had affairs. In 1894 Crippen started working for Dr Munyon's, a homeopathic pharmaceutical company. In 1897, Crippen transferred to England with his wife, although his US medical qualifications were not sufficient to allow him to practise as a doctor in the UK. As Crippen continued working as a distributor of patent medicines, Cora socialised with a number of variety players of the time, including Lil Hawthorne of The Hawthorne Sisters and Lil's husband/manager John Nash. Crippen was sacked by Munyon's in 1899 for spending"
"Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led"
"Erik Jorpes Johan Erik Jorpes (born Johansson, 15 July 1894 – 10 July 1973) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist. He identified the chemical structure of heparin and developed its clinical applications. Jorpes was the professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1946–1963. Erik Jorpes was born as Johan Erik Johansson to a poor fisherman's family in the village of Överboda in Kökar, Åland Islands. The family lived in a house called ""Jorpes"", which he later adopted as his last name to replace the patronyme ""Johansson"". After the primary school, his parents send the talented"
"Alvin Karpis Alvin Francis Karpis (born Albin Francis Karpavičius; August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), a Depression-era gangster nicknamed ""Creepy"" for his sinister smile and called ""Ray"" by his gang members, was a Canadian-born (naturalized American) criminal of Lithuanian descent known for being a leader of the Barker–Karpis gang in the 1930s. Karpis led the gang along with Fred Barker and Arthur ""Doc"" Barker. There were only four ""public enemies"" ever given the title of ""Public Enemy #1"" by the FBI and he was the only one to be taken alive. The other three, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd,"
"Singer/songwriter, Ani DiFranco wrote and performed the song, ""Hello, Birmingham"" about Kopp's shooting of Dr. Slepian. It is the sixth track on her tenth studio album, ""To The Teeth."" James Charles Kopp James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become the 455th fugitive placed on the list by the FBI. He was"
"John Martin Scripps John Martin (born John Martin Scripps, 9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996) was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders, for which British tabloids nicknamed him ""the tourist from Hell"". He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them. Martin was arrested in Singapore (where he had killed Lowe) when he returned there after murdering the Damudes. Photographs of decomposed body"
"N. J. Crisp Norman James Crisp (11 December 1923 – 14 June 2005), known as a writer only by his initials and surname, N. J. Crisp, was a prolific British television writer, dramatist and novelist. In the sixties after writing some single dramas, Crisp moved to writing for serials and turned out scripts for many BBC series including ""Compact"", ""R3"", ""Dixon of Dock Green"", ""Dr Finlay's Casebook"", ""Colditz"" and ""Secret Army"". In 1968, he co-created ""The Expert"", a serial about a forensic scientist, with Gerard Glaister, the producer. In 1972 the pair repeated the act with the boardroom drama ""The"
"(b. 1896) in 1930. Erik Jorpes Johan Erik Jorpes (born Johansson, 15 July 1894 – 10 July 1973) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist. He identified the chemical structure of heparin and developed its clinical applications. Jorpes was the professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1946–1963. Erik Jorpes was born as Johan Erik Johansson to a poor fisherman's family in the village of Överboda in Kökar, Åland Islands. The family lived in a house called ""Jorpes"", which he later adopted as his last name to replace the patronyme ""Johansson"". After the primary school, his"
"adapted from Charles Graeber's non-fiction book ""The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder"", is being scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns and is set to be directed by Tobias Lindholm. Charles Cullen Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is an American serial killer. Cullen confessed to authorities that he killed up to forty patients during the course of his sixteen-year career as a nurse in New Jersey. However, in subsequent interviews with police, psychiatrists, and journalists, it became apparent that he had killed many more, whom he could not specifically remember by name, though he could often"
"Hans Alfred Nieper Hans Alfred Herbert Eugen Nieper (23 May 1928 – 21 October 1998) was a controversial German alternative medicine practitioner who devised ""Nieper Therapy"". He is best known for his claims to be able to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. In 1986 an FDA release discredited his therapy as ineffective and unsafe. There is, however, no record official record of this FDA release. Hans Nieper was born in Hanover, Germany on May 23, 1928. His parents - who were both physicians - were Ferdinand Nieper (b. 1887) and Margarete Krauss (b.1898). They were married in"
"by Chief Inspector Walter Dew. Crippen admitted that he had fabricated the story about his wife having died and explained that he had made it up in order to avoid any personal embarrassment because she had in fact left him and fled to America with one of her lovers, a music hall actor named Bruce Miller. After the interview (and a quick search of the house), Dew was satisfied with Crippen's story. However, Crippen and Le Neve did not know this and fled in panic to Brussels, where they spent the night at a hotel. The following day, they went"
"suffered because of these and giving evidence at the trial, on 7 April 1911 HM Treasury authorised the payment of £100 in respect of expenses incurred and loss sustained by the couple in connection with the case of Rex v. Crippen. Lil Hawthorne died in 1926 aged 49. Lil Hawthorne Lil Hawthorne (1877–1926) was an American-born British stage beauty, music hall performer and pantomime Principal Boy. In 1910, Lil was involved in bringing Dr. Crippen to justice for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen, whom she had regarded as a good friend prior to her death. Born in"
"Henry George Kendall Henry George Kendall (30 January 1874 – 28 November 1965) was a British sea captain who survived several shipwrecks, including an attack by a German submarine during the First World War, and was also noted for his role in the capture of murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Captain Henry Kendall began his career in sailing ships in 1888 at the age of 14. Eight years later he married Jane ""Minnie"" Jones. In 1900 he survived a shipwreck on the Newfoundland coast when he was an officer on the SS ""Lusitania"" (not the later Cunarder torpedoed in the"
"North London residence, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter Dew sought the couple for murder charges. One theory had the couple sailing from Dover on ""Kroonland"", but when inspected in New York on arrival, Crippen and Le Neve were not to be found. The fleeing couple had instead sailed from Antwerp on the Canadian Pacific liner . Crippen, identified during ""Montrose""s crossing, was arrested, convicted of his wife's murder, and hanged; La Neve was acquitted. The American novelist Theodore Dreiser, returning from an extended European tour in April 1912, briefly considered returning on , but instead sailed two days later on"
"was much discussed, but is regarded as Sørensen's breakthrough. Kristoffer Nilsen Svartbækken Grindalen Kristoffer Nilsen Svartbækken Grindalen (9 September 1804 – 25 February 1876) was a Norwegian criminal, killer and thief. He was born at the crofter's farm Nordre Svartbækken in Elverum, and spent 41 years of his life in prisons. He was convicted for a murder and robbery near Ekrumstormyra in Løten in 1875, and was beheaded by axe at the site of the murder in 1876, witnessed by estimated 2,500 spectators, in the last public execution in Norway. Moments before his beheading he confessed to the murder. Henrik"
"Joseph Kelly (crimper) Joseph ""Bunko"" Kelly was a Liverpudlian hotelier of the 19th century who kidnapped men and sold them to work on ships. The terms ""Shanghaiing"" and ""crimping"" are used to describe this type of activity. By his own account, he Shanghaied about 2,000 men and women during his 15-year career, beginning in 1879. Kelly, later called ""The King of the Crimps"", received his ""Bunko"" nickname in 1885 by providing a crewman that turned out to be a cigar store Indian. Kelly made $50 on the deal. In one infamous deal in 1893, he delivered 22 men who had"
"Bartholomew John Bartholomew John (born 24 August 1952 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is an actor best known for his roles on television in America and Australia He played Dr. Chris Piper in the Australian soap opera ""The Young Doctors"" from 1977 to 1979 followed by a lead role in ""Skyways"" from 1979 to 1981 as Captain Nick Granger, also appearing in ""Waterloo Station"". More recent credits include: ""Murder Call"", ""All Saints"" and ""Always Greener"". Although his best-known work is probably playing the clown, Ronald McDonald on Australian television. In 2005 John portrayed John Forsythe in """", a fictionalized television movie"
"Ronald Pieper Ronald Pieper (1978) is a Dutchman convicted for the murder of air hostess Christel Ambrosius in Putten in 1994. After allegedly fleeing the scene, two other suspects were arrested by the police. Although innocent, the latter two served a prison sentence of 10 years. After their release Ronald Pieper, was arrested in 2008, based on DNA testing which linked him to the victim. He was sentenced to an 18-year sentence. During his imprisonment he allegedly confessed the murder on student Anneke van der Stap in 2005 in Rijswijk to a fellow convict. Dutch philosopher of science Ton Derksen"
"Thomas Neill Cream Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England, and possibly others in Canada and Scotland. Cream, who poisoned his victims, was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested his last words as he was being hanged were a confession that he was Jack the Ripper—even though he was supposed to be in prison at"
"be the only Japanese Methodist Episcopal bishop, was among those on the liner when she sailed on 31 May. News accounts reported on some of the unusual activities aboard ""Kroonland"" during this trip. Among them were morning devotional services held daily in the ship's dining room, and the spontaneous singing of hymns on deck every evening. ""Kroonland"" was tangentially involved in a more sinister affair in July 1910. American physician Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel La Neve, had fled England after the circumstances around his wife's death were questioned. After a body was found in the basement of Crippen's"
"George C. Nichopoulos George Constantine Nichopoulos (October 29, 1927 – February 24, 2016), also known as Dr. Nick, was an American physician of Greek descent. He was best known as Elvis Presley's personal physician and was controversial due to the singer's longstanding and ultimately fatal abuse of prescription drugs. Born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, Nichopoulos moved to Anniston, Alabama, during his infancy where his father, a Greek immigrant, opened a restaurant called Gus' Sanitary Cafe. From 1946 until 1948, he served in the Army Medical Corps in Germany before studying at the , where he received his B.S. in 1951. Nichopoulos"
"Lil Hawthorne Lil Hawthorne (1877–1926) was an American-born British stage beauty, music hall performer and pantomime Principal Boy. In 1910, Lil was involved in bringing Dr. Crippen to justice for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen, whom she had regarded as a good friend prior to her death. Born in Nashville in Illinois as Lillian Hawthorne, she started her variety career in America at the age of 14 as part of the song and dance trio ""The Hawthorne Sisters"" with her sisters, Lola and Nellie (1891–1898). She performed with her sisters in Boston and New York before transferring"
"Dr Crippen. In 1913, Newton was struck off indefinitely and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences. The foreign press suggested that Albert Victor was sent on a seven-month tour of British India from October 1889 to avoid the gossip which swept London society in the wake of the scandal. This is not true; the trip had actually been planned since the spring. Travelling via Athens, Port Said, Cairo and Aden, Albert Victor arrived in Bombay on 9 November 1889. He was entertained sumptuously in Hyderabad by the Nizam, and elsewhere by many other maharajahs. In"