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Early Twentieth Century England: With his marriage hanging by a thread and the theatrical career of his wife Cora, in tatters, Dr Crippen seeks counsel in the young and beautiful, Ethel. A proud Protestant, he vows never to act upon his feelings, but after returning home and finding his wife in the arms of another, Hawley and Ethel spend the night together. Cora learns of Hawley's affair and confronts Ethel, knocking her to the floor causing her to lose the unborn child that Ethel had previously kept from Hawley. With his hopes of fatherhood dashed and Cora's threat of making his affairs public, thus running his reputation as a respected homoeopathic physician, Hawley decides to take matters into his own hands. Whilst Dr Hawley Crippen was tried and found guilty for the murder of Cora Crippen, DNA tests carried out a century later reveal that the body found under the flagstones of his cellar was not that of Cora's. Nor was it female. Who then fell victim to Dr Crippen's murder plot and what happened to Cora? Crippen brings to life the events that led to the hanging of Hawley Crippen, cementing his place in history as one of England's most notorious murderers.