Thursday, July 29, 2010

Horrible injustice

When a heinous crime is committed the public is often quick to convict the prime suspect, even when the evidence is scanty. Take, for instance, the hundred-year-old case of Hawley Crippen, convicted of having killed his wife by poisoning, then dismembering her body and burying it in the basement. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not appalled by the crime allegedly committed, but, as it turns out, the body used as evidence may not have even belonged to his wife! DNA evidence is suggesting that someone other than his wife, in fact, someone male was buried in his basement. We think that Dr. Crippen has been given a raw deal. It appears that perhaps he poisoned, dismembered and buried someone else in his basement, and all the hatred directed at him for killing his wife may be misguided. Until other evidence is found we believe he should be cleared of killing his wife. He may be a murderer, but there is little evidence to support the fact that he is a wife-killer.

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