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The Houses of Horror - 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Road, Holloway, London
Dr Crippen lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent in Tufnell Park (now demolished), where he famously murdered his wife.
Number 39 Hilldrop Crescent was one in a block-long row of three-story dull-brick detached townhouses near Camden Road, in Holloway, North London. By 1910, the neighborhood had slightly fallen off the social scale and sat balanced between the starched-collar middle-class and the gingham quilt of working laborers.
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Cobble-stoned, tree-lined and pert, Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, didnt match Inspector Dews image as a place of foul play.
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Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 - 23 November 1910), usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, England, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless communication.
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Crippen was born in Coldwater, Michigan,...
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The police were informed of Cora's disappearance by her friend, strongwoman Kate Williams, better known as Vulcana, but began to take the matter more seriously when approached by John Nash, the husband and manager of Lil Hawthorne.
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Crippen and le Neve were tried separately at the London assizes, held at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London. After just 27 minutes of deliberations, the jury found Crippen guilty of murder and he was hanged by John Ellis in November at Pentonville Prison, London. Le Neve was acquitted.
