Dr Crippen is innocent OK!

[desperance]

Gotta love retrospective justice. Tho' what continues to fascinate me is how fascinated other people become, in just a few old murder stories. Solved or apparently solved or otherwise. Crippen, Jack the Ripper, a few others. Why are murders from a hundred years ago worth so much time and ink and trouble? Because they're both mythic and practical, I suspect: long enough ago that they're sunk into the public consciousness, near enough to now that they can still be "investigated". Hence leading to lurid headlines, which everybody loves. Yeah, right...