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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today



On this day in 1910 Dr Crippen, the first criminal to be apprehended using wireless communications, was sentenced to death. Crippen, in reality not a doctor but a salesman of homoeopathic medicine is thought to have poisoned his wife and burred her in quicklime under his cellar before moving his lover in to his house. The police were first allerted to the fact that something was amiss by a famed circus strong woman known as Vulcana who was a friend of Crippen's wife. Since the verdict, and Crippen's execution, several people have expressed their doubts about Dr Crippen's guilt including Raymond Chandler who thought it was odd that Crippen would take care to dispose of his wifes head, arms and legs but preserve her torso in the cellar (this could be explained by the quicklime getting wet and becoming slaked lime which acts as a preservative). Recent DNA evidence has also thrown doubt on whether the remains found were that of Crippen's wife, however as Crippen's lover claimed in the 1930s that he had told her he killed his wife, I'm willing to bet that any discrepency in the DNA is due to contamination of the sample, which was never kept under sterile conditions by Scotland Yard.

And now the news:


  • Sea Turtles Make Strong Showing in Florida
  • Why Aren't Insects Human-Size?
  • Mussels' Stickiness May Lead to Smarter Medical Gl...
  • Solar Power Used to Study Elephants in Africa
  • Bowhead Whales: Ancient DNA Sheds Light On Arctic ...
  • Albino squirrel in Minnesota
  • Baby Beaver Is Boost to Reintroduced Wild Populati...
  • Happy ending for Boris the cat
  • India’s Supreme Court lifts tiger tourism ban
  • Conservation groups seek changes at wind farm
  • Fareham youngster earns an RSPB award
  • Trainer says Marineland whale has been bleeding si...
  • Extinction from Global Warming: Changing Interacti...
  • Shark Social Networking: Shark Migrations Studied ...
  • Rare albino echidna gets new home in Australia

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