Hallie Rubenhold

You know, this was a profound act of fraud which would have seen her in prison doing hard labour.

Ethel never, ever forgets this, but at the same time,

eventually quietly just disappears into anonymity and becomes Ethel Smith.

She marries a man called Stanley Smith and lives in South London.

And every once in a while pops up to give an interview, which is so odd about her life until her children get too old and would figure out what was going on.

And then she never says anything again.

It's such a weird coda to this story.

The only misconception that seems to be in the ether is this idea that somehow the remains found in the basement of Hildrock present were not Bell's.

That is just, it's rubbish.

In the back of my book, there is an appendix and Professor Turi King, who was involved in the

Identification of the Richard III remains has looked at the white paper produced by this scientist in Michigan in, I believe it was 2007, who had tested a skin sample that had remained from the remains that were taken out of Hilltop Crescent.

and somehow miraculously found that the DNA seemed to indicate that this was neither a female body, nor was it of any relation to Belle Elmore.

And Professor King looked at this and thought,

said the white paper doesn't make sense.

The techniques they used are not the normal techniques that would have been used for the identification of this.

Not only that, but if you pour bleach on a grave site on remains, you're going to break down the DNA.

You're not going to be able to get a reliable test sample from it.

So the very idea of even going back and testing these remains, and there was no doubt that Crippen was guilty, but it's been a kind of legacy of misogyny that has led to this point.

And the absurdity of this is that the result of...

these spurious test results is that we've now got to the point in the story where we've turned Crippen into the victim and Belle into the killer because she was then questioned for, well, why didn't she come forward and stop his execution?