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Dr Crippen: The Eyes of the World

Dr Crippen: The Eyes of the World

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I investigated many murders during my career, more than I can count. But very few sent ripples much further than the communities in which they took place.Occasionally, though, I found myself at the centre of the country’s biggest news story.When your investigation dominates the headlines, the pressure is unreal.Every decision is scrutinised. Every delay criticised. Every mistake magnified.That attention ratchets up another level when a killer is identified and the manhunt becomes public.Suddenly, you’re not just trying to solve a murder and bring a killer to justice. You’re in a very public race against time. Every hour that passes without an arrest, fuels more speculation, more criticism and more questions about whether you’ll ever catch the person responsible.But it isn’t the criticism itself that keeps you awake at night.Throughout my career, the people I always felt most accountable to weren’t senior officers, politicians or journalists. They were the victim’s family. They had placed their trust in us at the darkest time of their lives.What you fear is that the constant public scrutiny begins to erode that trust. That they start to wonder whether the criticism they’re reading or hearing might be true. If that relationship begins to suffer, that’s when the pressure really hits.As I read about Walter Dew’s hunt for Dr Crippen, I couldn’t help wondering whether he felt that same burden of responsibility.The more I learned about his investigation, the greater the sense of kinship I felt with him. More than a century after Dew pursued Crippen, I found myself leading an international manhunt under remarkably similar circumstances.A celebrity reported missing.Murdered by her partner.The suspect fled abroad before the full picture emerged.The most heartbreaking difference was that my investigation also involved her two young sons.In almost every other aspect, the parallels were remarkable.In January 1910, American-born music hall singer, Cora Crippen, disappeared. A friend raised her concerns with the police, but initially not much appeared to have been done to locate her. But in July of that year, after the intervention of a police superintendent who had been contacted by friends of Cora, Chief Inspector Walter Dew visited the marital home and spoke with Cora’s husband, Dr Hawley Crippen.Just over a century later, concerns around the controlling behaviour by the partner of former Eastenders actress, Sian Blake, were raised by her family. As a result, police officers visited her home and spoke with her partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent.Both men gave seemingly plausible explanations as to their partner’s whereabouts.Crippen told Dew that Cora had left him for another man and travelled to America. Simpson-Kent said Sian had taken their two sons to visit a friend in Cambridge.Both homes were searched.Neither search revealed evidence to raise suspicion that either woman had come to any harm.For Walter Dew, verifying Cora’s whereabouts would have been extremely difficult, given the technology available in 1910.In Sian’s case, nobody could contact her after a text message was sent to her sister purportedly from Sian explaining that she needed to get away from everything. Sian was then officially reported as a missing person, along with her two sons, Zachary aged 8 and Amon aged 4. An investigation that was initially conducted by local police. Several weeks later, in the first week of January, her case was referred to us as the on-call murder team. A local superintendent feared serious harm may have come to them. Sadly, he was proven to be right.As detectives, you are taught to continually question the narrative.To never become fixed on one theory.What seems certain one day can change completely the next.Although Dew had accepted the explanation given to him, something about the story seemed to bother him. However, when he returned to make further enquiries with Crippen, the man had vanished.Whatever doubts Dew had been harbouring were now being confirmed by Crippen’s disappearance. After all, if he had been telling the truth, why would he run?Fearing what may have happened to Cora, he ordered a thorough search of the home, which led to a gruesome discovery.Below the brick floor of the basement lay the dismembered remains of a woman.Dew was convinced these were Cora Crippen.When Sian’s case came into my team, none of us believed we were being handed a simple missing persons case. One of the biggest alarm bells for me was the fact Sian had advanced motor neurone disease. She could just about care for herself, let alone the two boys. Added to this, by then, Simpson-Kent had disappeared, with all attempts to contact him having failed.Colleagues revisited the family home, intent on a more thorough search. They quickly discovered evidence of a violent incident, with substantial traces of blood having been painted over, in an apparent attempt to hide a crime.Within a few days of us taking ...
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