Secrets of the Dead: Executed in Error

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In 1910, an American doctor named Hawley Crippen (from Coldwater, Michigan) was convicted in England of poisoning and dismembering his wife. The vicious murder—and execution that followed—made international headlines. It was a landmark case: The first trial by media, and the first to be dominated by forensic science. But did the prosecutors get it right? Almost one hundred years later, investigators have re-opened the files on a murder that became known as one of the crimes of the century.

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