Hallie Rubenhold

And Crippen was one of the men involved in procuring that abortion for her.

And he looked after her.

What's so creepy about him?

He was a homeopathist, but he was also a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics.

He did perform abortions.

And so he met Bell and a relationship formed between them.

It's very creepy in itself.

And they quickly got married.

They got married in New Jersey, which was sort of like a Gretna Green in the United States.

It's a very quick marriage.

And then he decides that he doesn't want her to have any children.

So he decides he makes an excuse and tells her she needs her ovaries out.

Basically, at the age of 21, she's sterilized.

That completely devastates her.

Of course, yeah.

Yeah, you can imagine.

This is a girl, a young woman who grew up in a Catholic family who was told, you know, Victorian era, that her whole calling in life was to be a mother and a wife.

And she now had that taken away from her.

So what does she do?

A lot of women would just kind of wilt under the misery of that.