Welcome to a grisly bedtime story that remains one of the most shocking crimes of Edwardian England. So snuggle up, and join me as I tell you all about the grisly tale of Dr. Crippen, his wife Cora and his mistress Ethel La Neve,

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Hello everybody it is Craig whisper Storyteller here and I’m going to tell you another True Crime Story one that is much Stranger Than Fiction and a very very eerie tale must I say so if you’re comfortable let us begin I’m going to tell you the story of Dr krippen you ready then let’s

Go so in 1893 hly Harvey krippen married his second wife K cor Turner and they were married in JY buy city in the US and it was um 7 years later in the year 1900 they moved to London England he was employed as a representative for mion’s remedies which was a company making

Homeopathic remedies whil cor using the name b elore had aspirations to be a musical artist unfortunately Belle didn’t have a shred of talent also Belle noora was the real name of Mrs kbin she had been born kundi makosi I don’t know I’ve pronounced that correct forgive me if I I

Have but she was the daughter of a Russian polish father and a German mother she was also very overbearing and very dominant her long-suffering husband Dr krippin supported her Ambitions to be the an opera singer but when that didn’t work out she wanted to become a singer in a

Musical but she had very very little success she did manage to get the position of treasurer of the musical ladyes guilt in London and had a few sure business friends but that’s as far as it went Dr krippin and his wife took a lease on 39 Hilltop Cresent in

Hallay part of the thinking behind the Smo was that the pair could now have separate bedrooms you see B had never really been a sexual person and according to what Dr griin would say later all physical relations between them ceased in 1907 but during that time Dr grippin had fallen in

Love and the object of his desire was a one eel lenie Ethel lenie and she was um a typist um who worked for him and about the same time that doctor krippin stopped having sex with his wife he and Ethel became lovers and this situation continued until

1910 now on the evening of Monday the 31st of January 1910 the crippin threw a dinner party for two close friends of bells these were Paul and Clara martinetti the meal passed pleasantly without any event but then there was one situation Paul martinetti asked if he could use the

Toilet and because krippin didn’t escort him upstairs to show him where it was Belle paraded him and by the time the martinetti finally left the premises which was around 1:00 a.m. on Monday the 1st of February it would be the last time that anybody ever saw Belle alive

Again you following the Story So Far good because it’s about to get even crazier so over the next week or so people started to ask where Belle was krippin said that she had gone back to America as the days passed the story was somewhat amended and that she had fallen ill

Finally krippin told people that his wife had passed away there was however one problem with this and what problem could that be I hear you think well Ethel lenie had started wearing some of Belle’s jewelry and by the end of February she’d moved in with grippin at Hilltop

Cresant now at that time remember where talking about the turn of the 20th century people grew suspicious of this situation and in due course these suspicions were passed to the police on July the 8th Chief Inspector Walter duw called at Hilltop cresant where he found Ethel

Alone grippin it seemed was at work so Jew visited him there and the two returned together to Hilltop cresant where crippin finally showed the officer around the house he also told you a different story he said that Belle had left him for another man almost certainly a Bruce Miller an

American she’d met in late 1903 you told krippin that it would be better if Belle contacted him to confirm the story and krippin said he would place an advertisement in certain newspapers asking for her to make contact so this was way before telephone now this is where it gets very

Very strange so things had moved very quickly and on the 9th of July Dr krippin shaped off his very distinctive mustache and with Ethel L disguised as a boy they traveled to Brussels and there they bought tickets for passage to Canada traveled on to anwp and there

They boarded the SS montos traveling as I’m not lying here father and son at about the same time Chief Inspector du returned to Hilltop cresant he was surprised to find krippin and Ethel missing and decided to make another routine search of the house in the cellar he noticed some loose bricks on the

Floor officers were ordered to take more of a thorough surch of the house and beneath those bricks they found the remains of a body now the body was headless limbless and bornless I am not telling you any lie and it was little more than just pieces of Flesh and it was

Female it was time to find cor grippin meanwhile on the montos the Father and Son were watched with interest they seemed to be unduly affectionate and were constantly holding hands added to that the boy clothing seemed very ill fitting Captain Kendall had his suspicions and telegraphed a message to Scotland

Yard du more determined to intercept the Father and Son boarded the a faster ship the SS laurentic and the hunt was on on Sunday the 31st of July and other officers boarded the montra as had sailed up the St Lawrence The Father and Son were identified as krippin and Ethel

Leneve both were arrested and within 3 weeks were escorted back to England to face trial it was decided that the pair should not be tried together grippin would face his trial first and once that verdict was determined Ethel L would take her turn in the dock and tried as an

Accessory so that it was on the 18th of October griin stood alone in the dock at the O biley before the Lord Chief Justice of England Lord Alon and the proceedings would last until the 22nd of October gin’s defense was simple the body found in the cellar at his home was not Bells

Slora the body must have been some poor unknown woman that had been placed there before he and Bell moved in it was therefore crucial to the prosecution tion to prove the body was bells one piece of the flesh found in the shallow grave had born a scar and a

Medical record that Bell had such a scar on her lower abdomen more conclusive was the fact that the remains had been wrapped in a pajama jacket and a tug inside that jacket led to the manufacturers Jonas Brothers they confirmed that this particular cloth and pattern were not issued until late

1908 proving that the body must have been placed therea that date this and the scar were consistent with the body being of that b elore medical tests show that the flesh contained traces of hyene which is a poison and it was known that Dr krippin had purchased five

Grains of that substance on the 17th of January which was two weeks before Kora or Bell had vanished it was enough for the jury who took just 30 minutes to find Dr krion guilty of his wife’s murder and then on the 25th of October Ethel and Nave was put on trial as an

Accessory to murder and found not guilty a subsequent Appeal on behalf of krippin was dismissed and his death sentence was confirmed so on Wednesday the 23rd of November 1910 48-year-old krippin was hanged at Pentonville by John Ellis and William Ellis crippin’s last request was that a photograph of Ethel and some of her

Letters to be buried with him in his unmarked grave and Dr gin’s wish was granted so it’s also really memorable about this particular case is the fact that when Dr krippin and were on the ship they were apprehended using a wireless Telegraph now this was the first time

That criminals were known to be caught by using this technology but this ends this fascinating and riveting tale of Dr krippen and his mistress I find it fascinating and I hope that you enjoyed it too if you would like some more tro crime stories like Dr grippin do let me know in the

Comments below and I’ll be happy to oblige I just hope it doesn’t give you nightmares so this is wesper Storyteller signing out and wishing you all a very good night take care

6 Comments

  1. I love any kind of mystery stories, so yes, I want to hear more stories from you. Love your whisper!

  2. Honestly a long video of you whispering anything is amazing. Even true crime is soothing. Hope to have a long video of you soon 🤞🏻

  3. Thanks for the upload Craig! You really do help me relax and sleep 👍 I’d love a new whisper video too they’re my favourite ☺️ but this is great too! Hope you’re well mate

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