SECRETS OF THE DEAD: Executed in Error
Wednesday, October 1 at 8 PM
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In 1910, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged for poisoning and dismembering his wife after he attempted to flee the country with his young lover. However, investigators have now found that the human remains discovered in Crippen’s cellar were not those of his wife. Their further DNA work — revealed exclusively in this film — throws up startling new evidence about what really happened. It exposes a historic miscarriage of justice and poses uncomfortable questions about the police and prosecutors who claimed to have solved the crime of the century.
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