I love Autumn. Blustery days full of dark gray clouds and rain just make you want to stay inside and read a good mystery. Speaking of mystery, they just announced the results of the DNA testing from that case I wrote about a month or two ago. Just as a quick reminder, a body was discovered in the basement of a man's house in England at the end of the 19th century. The body had been buried there with the removal of anything that would help aid in it's identification. A few weeks earlier the woman of the house had gone missing so when the police got wind of Crippen suddenly leaving the country they apprehended him, tried him, and executed him for murder all within a couple of months. Just recently researchers have been able to get their hands on some DNA evidence from the recovered body and compare it to living relatives of Crippen's wife. And guess what...the body didn't belong to his wife! So now the question is who's body was it and how did it get there...hmmmm......here is the press release info if you are interested
http://www.special.newsroom.msu.edu/crippen/
I guess this has already received a huge amount of press in England.
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