Hallie Rubenhold

And something went wrong along the way.

And people find themselves sliding down a slippery slope.

Ethel just wanted a better life.

and then finds herself deeply embroiled in fraud and the commercial enterprises that Crippen is involved with that are very dark.

And does that make Ethel a terrible human being?

It makes her a fascinating and complex human being.

You know, and it's that I think we need to be much more comfortable with not knowing and with nuance.

Where do you find the gray area in this story?

In the personalities.

What I love is that people will read this and they'll go, well, but Belle could be difficult.

Well, of course, who can't be difficult?

Not everybody likes you.

Everybody who will meet you, not everybody will like you or have something complimentary to say about you.

Does that make you a bad person?

No, it doesn't make you a bad person.

The gray area is in that, I think.

I mean, there is no doubt that something terrible happened here.

Somebody was murdered.

And what made it even worse, horrific lies that were told.

Crippen was really a morally flawed, defective person.