The first account of the Crippen saga to make full use of the new DNA evidence that has transformed the case.
It was an open and shut case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were discovered he had fled the country with his mistress disguised as his son.
