Wheelchair user targeted by thieves
Former neonatal midwife’s belongings stolen twice in just 10 days
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Former neonatal midwife’s belongings stolen twice in just 10 days
Family calls for probe into 46-year-old’s death on honeymoon
LONDON--‘Hilldrop Crescent is a quiet suburban place, although in the inner ring of the Metropolis, and reasoning specifically, it would be the last spot one would have dreamt of for the scene of a sordid murder’. Thus did the British newspaper The Islington Gazette for 15 July 1910 describe the location of one of Edwardian London’s most notorious crimes; the poison murder by Michigan-born Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen of his German-American wife Cora at number 39 Hilldrop Crescent,