UK News 02-06-2005 who: Bonhams what: Sells Crippen prescription for £293 where: BATH when: Tuesday snippet: "The deadly doctor killed and decapitated his wife Cora in 1910 in a murder which shocked the world," recalls The Mirror. "Crippen buried his headless wife in the cellar of his London home before sailing for Canada aboard the SS Montrose as a huge manhunt began throughout Britain." The note was written in November 1904, says the BBC, "and was sold with a follow-up letter written by Crippen`s typist and mistress Ethel Le Neve". [... more]

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