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  The Crippen name conjures up the stuff of nighmares to most of us, associated like he is with gruesome murder...but new evidence in a Channel 5 documentary the other night seems to prove otherwise. The unfortunate Crippen was hanged after the body of his wife was found buried in the back garden of his south London house. I say 'wife' losely as it is now certain that the body found in the back garden was not a woman at all, the remains were those of a male. Modern DNA methods prove this...not a science available to the police in 1910.
  
  The 'Crippen' house was a rented house. It had been rented out many times to many people, so the body in the back garden could have had a wide source of origination.
  
  THis was the first big media trial. After the body was discovered Crippen dashed to America by ocean liner with his mistress and was caught in a blaze of publicity..middle class sexual shenanigans made great news at the time, and the police were under huge pressure like never ever before to produce. There are now strong suggestions of planted evidence in order to get the conviction.
  
  The police were convinced he was guilty, as they were convinced it was his wife buried in the garden..so it is now suggested, took the necessary steps to secure conviction. The jury believed them taking just 25 minutes to reach a verdict.
  
  Crippen was hanged soon after.
  
  Again we have a dodgy verdict in a murder trial and all laid squarely at the feet of the non-reliable legal system. Those longing for the return of the death penalty might take time to pause.

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