Hallie Rubenhold

Ethel was, I hate to use this term, but she was very avaricious.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a better quality of life, which she did want.

But even her parents described her as very materialistic, quite covetous, quite secretive, quite jealous.

And all of these things kind of turn up later in life when she's with Crippen.

And I think, to be honest, the two of them bring out the worst in each other as well.

And it was a kind of perfect match.

Really, if he had never met Ethel, Belle Elmore would have died of natural causes, I'm sure of it.

Yeah, he did.

I mean, this was some weird thing.

You know, Crippen was a homeopathist.

And first of all, Ethel was a hypochondriac.

And even her children in later life commented that Ethel was a hypochondriac.

Crippen, as a homeopath, thought that the way of curing Ethel's neuralgia was to remove her teeth.

This must have been common practice because I can't imagine that he just invented this as a cure for that.

But yes, she did have false teeth.

But so did a lot of people.

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.