Talk:Hawley Harvey Crippen

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Needs an infobox to truly be a "B" -- but otherwise it's well beyond a "Start" rating.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 12:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

What year was he actually born? 1862 or 1885? 150.101.157.197 12:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Other sources say he graduated in 1885 and was born in 1862. These seems consistent with him being married when arriving in Britain in 1900 and him being referred to as 48 years old in 1910 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.31.40.71 (talk) 14:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia?

Why is the popular culture section marked as trivia? Several other people and objects have similar sections, often to the extent that they grow into whole separate articles. Rpeh 09:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Someone being overzealous. I'll delete it. Nick Cooper 13:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] remains in cellar

This article mentions cora's remains were found in many packages in the cellar.

Is this correct?

I though that Inspector Dew found some human remains (minus all bones, head, feet and hands), and that Crippens defence was that the remains were not those of his wife. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.208.248.99 (talk) 11:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

The skin was found in pieces under the bricks of the coal cellar floor, with lime that Crippen had intended would destroy it. Dry quicklime would have done so, but he added water and so created slaked lime, which preserved it. The piece with the scar, used for identification at the trial, was found on top; it may have been that Crippen had intended to dispose of it separately and was in some way disturbed at his task and so threw it in with the rest.

It has been suggested that if he had ordered a delivery of coal to fill the narrow cellar the police might not have been as willing to examine it in detail and might never have found the remains. RGCorris (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)