Hallie Rubenhold

But he was cosmopolitan.

He was educated.

He was a doctor.

Therefore, he would, you know, earn a good salary and a good income.

And for...

Young women who were of the working class or lower middle class, this was a pretty steady man.

And women were looking for steady men because women didn't technically have careers.

They weren't supposed to.

So they saw Crippen as quite a nice looking meal ticket.

Not in the least.

In fact, there were many such combinations.

When they lived on Store Street, there was another couple who they knew who were also similar in their match.

Musical performers could lead completely normal lives.

I mean, they...

often led bohemian lives as well and they were noted for that and people were always rather suspicious of performers and their so-called morality as well and the rackety lives that they led.

But a lot of them lived in the suburbs like the Cribbins did.

Well, she wasn't portrayed in the media after she disappeared.

She was portrayed in the media after her remains were uncovered because Scotland Yard was not interested in investigating her disappearance.

And in fact, it took her friends at the Musical Ladies Guild months before they could get Inspector Dew interested

at all in investigating this case.