Hallie Rubenhold
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You know, dental bills were expensive and people had their teeth extracted sometimes before they got married.
So they wouldn't have the added expense of paying for dental bills.
If you just have dentures, you don't have to worry about tooth decay.
Oh, we should absolutely have question marks around Ethel.
I mean, Ethel was acquitted and her barrister gave the most extraordinary speech about this innocent girl who was seduced by this kind of Svengali
and was completely ignorant of everything and was helpless.
And, you know, all the evidence pointed to exactly the opposite.
I mean, Ethel was absolutely involved in this.
She knew this was going to happen.
Crippen bought her an engagement ring, which she hid away and she showed her landlady, Emily Jackson, who she was quite close with.
But other than that, she kept it hidden away until the week before...
Crippen murdered Bell.
And then she brought it out at her birthday party and showed everybody that she was engaged and she was getting married, but she wouldn't say to whom.
But the timing was quite amazing because Crippen at that point was buying the hyacinth hydrobromide.
So obviously she knew what was going on.
She had this total nervous breakdown about Belle Elmore around the time of her murder.
I have no doubt that she was there.
She would not have been there during the poisoning, but she would have been there for the cleanup because Crippen...
Couldn't have done it himself and he couldn't have done it in that short span of time.
And he would have needed Ethel's help.