Dr. Crippen Poem by Robert Sheridan

American physician/hung in Pentonville Prison –
London, England on November 23rd, year 1910
for the murder of his un-beloved, & lovely wife
She mysteriously disappeared in January of that
year – he said she took a transatlantic cruise; he
was busy screwing his mistress; she openly wore
his deceased’s jewelry & clothes – tipped off the
police; after a quick search of the house & a talk
with the Doc, Crippen & his mistress panicked –
fled to Brussels & spent the night; following day
they left for Antwerp – with their disappearance,
Scotland Yard searched the house twice,3rd time
wasn’t a charm – she wasn’t in the cellar, wasn’t
in the garden; after death, Cora Crippen’s bones
& limbs were removed & burned in an oven, her
organs were dissolved in acid in the bathtub; her
head – placed in a handbag & tossed overboard
at sea; a pathologist couldn’t tell if the body was
man or woman – however, he did found a piece
of her skin with an abdominal bruise; Crippen
was hung after being convicted.

‘2008’