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Sir Bernard Spilsbury was an acclaimed pathologist and the father of forensic science whose most celebrated case made his name and changed the face of murder investigations forever. But how solid was his evidence, and did it lead to an innocent man being executed?

  • Date: January 1910 onwards
  • Location: Albion House, 55-57 New Oxford Street, London, Bloomsbury, WC1
  • Victims: 1 (Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen)
  • Culprits: 1 (Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury)


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