Hallie Rubenhold

But only one other person really gets to tell her story, and that's Melinda May, who was the secretary of the Musical Ladies Guild, who tells her story in a book about how she experienced all of this.

But...

These women did leave witness statements.

They left police statements.

We can cobble together their stories.

They are amazing.

They are indefatigable in their work and trying to track down what happened to their friend.

When Belle goes missing, they think there's something really wrong here.

And they go knocking on doors.

They interrogate Crippen on a number of occasions.

They even hire a private detective to trail him and Ethel.

And this person got invited to a dinner party where Ethel and Crippen were at.

And it's very interesting.

He wasn't able to really ascertain anything.

But they had the president of Musical Ladies Guild was touring in the United States at the time.

And she got involved and she tried to get the American authorities involved.

She got in touch with Bell's sisters.

So when they were on that ship coming and they figured they would be going to America, didn't realize they were going to Canada, but organized this dragnet.

So Musical Ladies Guild in the United States and the sisters of Bell Elmore were waiting in New York in the harbor.

to try to identify him as he got off these ships.