Hawley harvey crippen biography

By: Dave McDonald, BCHS – President

In a past article appearing on the front page of our local newspaper we read of the ongoing Crippen family struggle to vindicate Hawley Harvey Crippen of the murder and mutilation of his 2nd wife, Belle Elmore. A notorious murder mystery in the UK approaching the caliber of “Jack the Ripper”.

Born in Branch County to Coldwater residences, Myron A Crippen and wife, Andresse Skinner, in 1862, Hawley was an only child. He was raised in the Crippen home at the corner of Monroe and Grand Streets (insert), now the site of Century Bank & Trust’s auto bank and the Coldwater City Offices.

If you were to envision a character as a murderer capable of poisoning, filleting and burying their spouse, it would not include the likes of the quiet 5’3” Hawley Crippen. But that made for the fascination of the story.  A cruel brutal brott coming from such a small demure person.

Completing his studies at the University of Michig

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The notorious case of Dr Crippen

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20th October, 2017 in True Crime

By John J Eddleston

In 1893, Hawley Harvey Crippen married his second wife, Cora Turner, in Jersey City, amerika. Seven years later, in 1900, they moved to London.

Crippen was employed as a representative for Munyon’s Remedies, a company making homeopathic remedies while Cora, using the name Belle Elmore, had aspirations to be a music hall artist. Unfortunately, Belle had no talent whatsoever.

In fact, neither Belle nor Cora was the real name of Mrs Crippen. She had been born Kunigunde Mackamotzki and was the daughter of a Russian-Polish father and a German mother. She was also a most overbearing and dominant character. Her long-suffering husband supported her ambitions to be first an opera singer and, when that didn’t work out, a singer in the music hall but she had very little success. All she did manage to get out of her ‘career’ was a few showbusiness friends and the position of Trea

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Hawley Harvey Crippen

American executed homeopath

"Dr. Crippen" redirects here. For other uses, see Crippen.

Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.^[1]

Early life and career

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Hawley Crippen was born in Coldwater, Michigan,^[2] the only surviving child to Andresse Skinner^[3] and Myron Augustus Crippen,^[4] a merchant.^[5] He was educated first at the University of Michigan's homeopathy school, then graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1884.^[6] After his first wife, Charlotte Jane (née Bell), died of a stroke in 1892, Crippen entrusted his parents, living in San Jose, California, with the