This is very interesting. I was saving Crippen for November 23 but this'll work. First suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraph.
Vulcana, Cora Crippen's friend who was a professional strongwoman, reported her as missing to police. The Crippen house was searched but nothing unusual was found. Crippen told Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Walter Dew that he lied about his wife having died and that she'd run off for America with her lover.
Crippen and his girlfriend tried to escape to Canada. Crippen shaved his mustache; his girlfriend was disguised as a boy. The captain of the ocean liner wasn't fooled and sent a wireless telegram to London police. Police went to Crippen's house and searched more thoroughly digging up the cellar finding the torso of a body. Chief Inspector Dew took a faster White Star ship and met Crippen in Canada.
If Crippen hadn't tried to escape, suspicions wouldn't have risen. If he hadn't booked first class passage, he may not have been recognized. If Crippen had taken a ship to the USA, things would have been tied up in extradition. (Canada was still a British colony.)
The jury was out for twenty-seven minutes until the guily verdict. Crippen was convicted and sentenced to death. In England, this meant being assigned to a condemned cell. The hangman and his assistant make calculations for the drop based on he prisoner's weight and height to achieve a swift death by broken neck without decapitation or strangulation. On November 23, 1910 at 9:00AM, guards entered Crippen's cell, removed a partition wall to the execution chamber. It was over within seconds.
Cora's torso is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Except it isn't Cora. Recent DNA testing revealed it was a man's torso in the cellar. 1910 coroner's exams note the torso had high levels of anaphrodisiac - the opposite of an aphrodisiac - which Crippen bought at a local pharmacy. The head, arms and legs were never found. Why go through the trouble of disposing of them and leaving the torso? Who is he?
Was Crippen performing abortions?
Did he murder Cora? Did she have syphilis? (Regarded as proof of her infidelity and a motive for Crippen to kill her.)
There are more questions than answers.