Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal Issues:What is the Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen murder case?

The most notorious and famous murder case in British history

Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged to death in London in one of the most notorious and famous murder cases in British history for the murder of his wife Cora Henrietta Crippen, on November 23, 1910 on the basis of forensic evidence. For nearly a century, Crippen, a doctor, was thought to have poisoned his wife with an obscure toxin, and buried. He was labeled "one of the most dangerous and remarkable men who have lived in this century." Researchers have now cast doubts on this conviction. Now forensic science at Michigan State University is producing evidence that his execution was a mistake. David Foran, a forensic expert and director of MSU’s forensic science program, partnering with clinical and forensic toxicologist John Harris Trestrail the managing director of the regional poison center in Grand Rapids, is combining state–of–the–art DNA analysis with solid sleuthing to show the remains buried in Crippen’s basement couldn’t have been his wife.