Just not as many as I could have!) I did try not to be maudlin or self-pitying. Someone else suggested maybe the body was of a woman who had died of a botched abortion he performed however, I don't know if there was any evidence that he did abortions.ġ.

I don't think I'd convict Hawley on this evidence, but I don't think the DNA evidence is perfectly exculpatory, either.Ģ. Which would be stupid, but murderers often are.Ģ) She was deliberately trying to frame him for her murder-either for a murder he committed (in which case it would seem simpler just to turn him in for it), or one she or someone she knew did (in which case it seems like a lousy frame, to hope that her friends would kick up a fuss and get the police to search the house). I can think of two reasons for Cora to voluntarily leave the way she reportedly did, because even taking the descriptions of her personality with a grain of salt, she doesn't sound like the type to chuck her friends and activities for a silent overnight departure for America, letting her despised husband do all the notifying.ġ) She committed the murder and fled in a panic. Which is undated but must date from sometime after 1988 (see page 315), and the tone of which strikes me as a lot earlier, especially in its comments about Cora. This article said, 'Researchers found other evidence to suggest the body could only have made its way to Crippen's house when he and his wife were living there,' and the enormous PDF casebook linked from the MSU page says that's based on the shirt the remains were wrapped in. (The other question, of course, is chain of custody of the trial evidence, which again I can't evaluate.) That's a pretty short chain, but other than that I can't really evaluate the probability of any link in the chain being broken, in terms of genetic descent. So there are at least two places for an unacknowledged adoption: Cora's youngest sister, or her daughter (add more if the grandnieces are from different daughters). Three grandnieces were tested, but I haven't seen anything that says whether they were all children of the same niece. The sound clip 'geneology' linked on this page says that the relatives who were tested were descendants of Cora's youngest sister, and that was the line that was brought forward. I saw the suggestions that the tested grandnieces might not actually have been biological relatives. So, about the reliability of the tests, first.

I saw it, but hadn't dug into it until now. How did you keep the tone of your memoir so non-judgmental? I found that really striking, especially since my reactions were. Tell me about-was it small and large infinities?ġ. (On our trip this year, we didn't bother seeing the cat, because they wanted you to pay extra. (I posted them here:, but took down a bunch since because I never used them.) I use the cat as a default because I thought if I were an animal, I'd be a small neat brown cat, and because using a picture of myself as a default seemed weird for reasons I can't really articulate. I don't know why it doesn't look much like the original.įast forward to October 2004, when I needed to familiarize myself with my work's digital camera, and so finally got around to taking pictures of knick-knacks and turning them into icons. The wooden cat is a souvenir Chad brought back from Nikkô in 1998, a souvenir model of the famous sleeping on at Tôshô-gû, which you can see here : or in a bigger picture here:

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