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Just imagine how easy it was to kill back then and not get caught. Or how easy to accuse you of something you didn’t do.
it's really scary to think about to be honest. i can't imagine how many people in more remote places were killed without anyone ever knowing.
It’s still that easy.. half of the “unsolved crimes” are crimes that were committed like that.
@@zorrakas320 He could of place her remains in lye to mask the odor from the body?
Yes it’s kind of scary
@@zorrakas320it’s not still easy. There are way too many cameras and advanced forensics to put a homicidal suspect in custody.
You look at the most “successful” and most infamous serial killers of all time, none of them are from the modern era.
John Wayne Gacey (1972-1976) murdered 30 people before being caught.
Jeffrey Dahmer (1978-1991) murdered 17 people before being caught.
Ted Bundy (1974-1978) murdered 30 people before being caught.
Jack the Ripper (1888) murdered five women before being caught.
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The reason these kill counts are so high in such a little amount of time is because it was easier to kill and get away with it back then. Nowadays there are too many cameras. Even if you remain off camera, or are wearing a mask there’s too many ways to get caught.
Evidence left at the scene will be analyzed by forensics and will get you caught immediately
Cameras will identify you and get you caught immediately
The biggest factor in my opinion is social media. Back then these people would kill and the only people stopping them were the police. Nowadays social media would be going crazy and millions of people would be aware of the killer. Not so stealthy anymore.
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Essentially it’s much harder to reign as a serial killer nowadays than it was back then.
Dr. Crippin' would be a dope name for a 90's rapper
My brain was in that realm.
Something about the wife not respecting Crippen.
Most especially if he was black😂
Dr Trippin’ 😂
@@abdulrazaksaani5296 Of course he'd be black, crips aren't white duh!
"Real photo of a deck of cards" haha its those gems that keep me coming back.
Those are one of my favorite things about these videos 🤣
“Not a real photo of the whiskey Dr. Crippen served”🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Alright
I feel like nobody should be surprised that the investigation was messed up so badly with a Jack the Ripper detective on it.
thats actually jack the ripper and he planted the male body in the walls
I was thinking the same thing. Of curse it was botched. It had a Jack the Ripper investigator on the case.
maybe crippin is the ripper
@@zyklan2197 maybe crippin does the rippin lmao
@@isabelp187 💀
Belle, reading the newspaper somewhere in America: "...damn, that's crazy."
And untrue.
@@nicolad8822 Well of course lol, it was a joke.
Why did they even make adverts in America for her? He admitted to making up the story about her going there. It doesn’t make any sense! 🤔
@@mattallan434 No, he admitted he lied about her going over there to take care of a sick relative. The detectives were still under the impression that she went to America after she "left" him.
@@sandydog426i think she did went to america. And he followed him or hired a professional killer end her. Which between two persons alone.
Belle- "I'm leaving you tomorrow"
Dr. Crippen- "How about you leave now?"
🤣🤣🤣
Bye Felicia.
🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Lmaooo 😂
Dr Crippen: “And frame me for your murder while you’re at it.”
The story of how Crippen got caught is fascinating in and of itself. Basically, he boarded a ship in Belgium disguised as a pastor, while Ethel was disguised as his son. That ship's captain, Henry Kendall, who was a huge badass with very dramatic life story himself, got suspicious when he saw them kissing and started to investigate them all by himself. Once he was convinced it was actually Crippen, he called back to London and informed Scotland Yard about it. In the end, Dr. Crippen became the first ever suspect to be caught via using wireless ship-to-land communication. Absurd stories like that just don't happen anymore nowadays.
This is legitimately fascinating like you said! Would’ve been great to have him include that❤
@@NinnyPoo_theFlabbergastedJoy True that 😅 I had watched Maritime Horror's video about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in 1914 where Kendall was Captain and this story was briefly mentioned. So over the course of this entire video, I was like "Wait a minute, is this going where I think it is?" Would've indeed been cool if MrBallen had included that, but I guess he cut it for time reasons.
A story in my family says that my grandfather was the postman who received the telegram.
I wouldn't have batted an eye seeing a priest kissing "his son". It probably isn't his son at all and just some other kid.
The captain really had his wits about him.
That body in the basement was that dude in the pic she kept on the mantle piece to torment him... He went and found him and did away with the man she kept belittling him with
Yoooooooo that might be true man
OH MY GOD IT COULD BE
BINGO!!! I can here to post this hypothesis myself.
That’s what I thought too 😂 MrBallen said he was put death for something he didn’t do but technically he did kill someone so 😅 and why was Ethel so sus? She knew a lot more too. He got rid of Belle to be with Ethel.
Mine thoughts exactly
It Ballen 0' clock.
@@mr.incubus24 I'm a weirdo always saying weird stuff. Thank you.
🙌🙌🙌
It is totally Ball:20
AYEEEEEEEEE😁God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven💖
YESSIR
The Crippens' home was rented. Previous tenants had been German medical students who had long gone home. It's been suggested that the remains, which were not of a complete body, might have been anatomical specimens brought home for dissection practice. As this was technically illegal and the specimens would quickly start to decompose without refrigeration they were hurriedly buried in the cellar.
Also, a music hall singer who may have been Belle surfaced at some later point in America.
I was wondering how the specimens would still be rotting if it was from the previous tenants but then I remembered the dirt was clay which has a very slow decomp rate to other soils.
Interesting. That makes a lot of sense.
That's a good point. Also, the body had his tranquilizer in it. I'm convinced she was really a man. Ballen said she was beautiful, but i strongly disagree, lol! She was a dude. OR, he killed the dude she cheated on him with and buried his body down there. Or maybe it could have been both of their bodies, the prize fighter and the loudmouth cheater? I don't like her, lol. Either one of those possibilities could explain why they were drugged, then hacked up in anger later. Who knows, lol?@@mousepariah3884
Did they check to make sure the man in the picture on the mantle was still alive?
I wish this was included in the video
“An innocent man was put to death”
So um…are we just going to ignore the fact that he still had a dismembered body in his house?
And that he fled too lmao
What if it was the guy who she cheated on him with 🤔
Finally! Someone has covered this 🤭 I read about this case in a book about complicated Scotland Yard cases from way back when. They had put his diary notes in there
Idk if the websites still around but it was like "true cold case files" or something like that but yoy can see the actual notes and stuff from each of these cases
Its been covered by a LOT of true crime channels/podcasts. I've seen it pop up regularly. It trends about every three months.
I'm a security guard who does the graveyard shift at an old castle. I used to love walking around at night admiring the castle in all its glory.... now every time i have to go for a patrol, i start to hear Mr Ballen narrating my every move, and I'm starting to hear things 😢
Now I’m gonna do the same thing 😂
@toinfinitybeyond437 Your comment made me chuckle! I can't imagine your job - so cool, indeed! Thanks for the chuckle. And don't worry, it's just the wind. (Or is it??)
"someone there?...hmm, mustve been the wind." Just say that, works everytime.
Lmfao idk why but this made me chuckle so hard 😂
I like to go camping and hiking. I also hear Ballen narrating my every move. One time I had just heard the polar bear story from him where the polar bear ripped through the tent and started eating the guy head first. I kept hearing him tell the story in my head while I kept hearing noises
I love the photo subtitles. "Not a real photo of the whiskey Dr. Crippin poured" 😂
Cuz it was vodka!
That one made me laugh too 🤣
haha same 🤣
This is the only reason I can't get into the podcasts... I want to see the "NOT a real picture of's" or the "REAL picture of a different..."
@@timsawyer9231 The images and video's really makes it all more interesting cause you have somewhat of a sense of "you were there" moment.
I am so sorry for posting this on all of your videos I'm just trying to make sure that you see it that there is a channel out there called scary true stories who is ripping you off he's reposting your videos but he's only recording your audio and he's not giving you any credit whatsoever credit whatsoever it's not like he's doing reaction videos cuz he's not he's just reposting your videos the channel again is called scary true stories
Y r u cribbing here
@@niranjanmurthy126 did you even read the comment?
Your awesome for looking out 🩵
Quit yapping
@@jessicatimmons31you’re *
I had heard this story before, but listening to it from MrBallen is a whole different experience altogether. Not only the manner of relaying the story is amazing, but I also got a chance to put actual images of faces and places to mere names and locations. Thank you!!
My Great-great-grandfather was chief inspector Dew. I've been told this story since I was a kid.
It's nice to hear all the details for a change.
🧢
Very cool.
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@FranklinFranklin69 yes of course, because people in the past couldn't have kids.
Wow, that's so cool!
Me: “well that’s exactly what I thought from the beginning”
Mr.Ballen: “…however, this was not the end of the story…”
That's the reason why Mr. Ballen is my favorite storyteller.😅
HE LITERALLY TOLD YOU FROM THE VERY START OF THE VIDEO THE ENDING IS TOTALLY RANDOM AND DOESN'T GO WHERE YOU THINK IT'S GONNA GO.
@@nl3064 calm down. Take a deep breath. Now do you fell better?
@begonefucksplash what's the point of watching the video if they're gonna ignore literally the first thing he tells them?
@@nl3064 well sometimes we get immersed in the story and forget the beginning. It is what it is 🤷
I remember seeing this case covered on TV a while ago, and the look of absolute catharsis of one of Dr. Crippin’s ancestors when learning his relative was innocent. It’s still an incredibly tragic case, but at least that innocence and the subsequent injustice is now known.
Another example why the death penalty can *never* be just.
But they did find a dead corpse in his home and why the need to run away if he’s innocent?
I freaking love how Mr. Ballen tells stories.
*"NOT a real photo of the whiskey Dr. Crippen served"*
This made me laugh out loud.
Vodka!
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
its my favourite part of these videos tbh 😂😂😂
Laugh now, but in a hundred years storytellers will be able to post "real photo of Belle's Applebee's boneless wings" in their videos because of social media addiction.
You left out my favorite part of the story - once Scotland Yard found out Crippen was en route to Canada, Inspector Dew got on a faster ship, arrived in Canada first, and personally met him at the dock to arrest him. They even performed Music Hall songs about it in London while Dew was underway.
Real life Sherlock
@@ElizabethGarcia-il6ln
No shitake, Sherlocke?
would have been so gangster if a mile before shore he hijacked a rowboat lifeboat and snuck out in the night
@@Wes.jumpss He may not have killed his wife, but he had SOMEONE's organs and skin buried in his basement and there aren't many non-murder explanations for that
Canada was a British colony back then. Not the best place to go if you are wanted by the British authorities.
Still binging, Mr. Ballen for almost 4 years now. I feel so special when Amazon notifies me of a “podcast exclusive” from MrBallen on my Alexa from Amazon ☺️
Nobody can tell a story better than Belle... Except you John! 😁
I love the way you tell these stories! I'm homeless, living in a shelter, just got back to work and trying to get on my feet and listening to you tell stories helps me to escape reality for a bit so please don't stop doing this!!! I'm probably not the only person that listens to your stories to get a break from their problems for a bit and that's needed for mental health reasons. Thank you for this small break from my problems and life!!!
You got this! ❤
Was gunna say the same thing good luck to you ❤
Good luck hun! I was homeless 2 years ago and lived out my suv. TH-cam got me through a lot of long hard days in my suv. I have my own place now and it took a lot of hard work but I'm so grateful! You can do this!
I've been homeless since July 30th 2021 when my ex and I broke up and I had to move out because I wasn't on the lease. Lived in motels and my suv-which is currently not working and now has a boot on it because my registration just Ren out the end of January and I haven't driven it since the middle of January. I get my first paycheck this week and was planning on paying my registration as well as to get it fixed. It's too much on me as my adopted brother just died on Friday and I'm beyond stress because of other things and the boot on my car was my last straw so during my lunch break I watched this to take my mind off of things so I could calm myself down as I was in the middle of an anxiety attack. Thank you all for your words of encouragement I do appreciate them more than you know
@@user-zm8rm9qz9r You've got this, this shall end soon too. Don't forget what God said in the Quran 94:6 "Very after every hardship, there is ease" . Take care and be safe out there!
My first thought is that the unnamed male victim is either Belle's boxer lover, or some other person with whom she'd cheated on her husband.
Was the boxer ever seen after this time period? Has anyone checked the DNA of his relatives?
My immediate thought!
Plus, what if it was bits of him and bits of her in there and they happened only to take dna from his bit
Hear me out, or Belle was actually a man.
@@paida887damn that is a huge possibility
@@paida887 dang.... you might be right
It is still possible that he did kill her and that the body parts under the bricks belonged to her lover whom she cheated with.
One of your best yet! A guy with a grudge can be every bit as spooky as a witch in a forest.
I would not want to run into the guy or the witch in a forest (especially at night) and I would not like seeing Mr Ballen in that forest late at night either . . . . hitting my tent with a branch or illuminating his face with a huge smile and flashlight while laughing and reciting some stanza he'd invented out of thin air.
Kidding & giggles aside - I saw another feed where no one wanted to run into you at night in a forest either Mr. Ballen . . . . That really got a laugh out loud from me. And I thought to myself (at night) . . . me neither!!!
Thank you for the entertainment - I like the subtle changes and the stories . . . I won't camp out in the forest without an RV or van - - - EVER ever Ever again. I had 3 friends disappear off the backside of Pikes Peak (the crags campground . . . around the first of July 2016 (with 3 dogs - a poodle, a pug and and pit bull) I slept in that forest that week that they dissappeared right below their campsight about 35 feet away with a creek inbetween us . . . Last time I set up a tent. My cat went out and stayed out for over an hour. I was worried and pissed at him for being gone so long. He was 14 years old but very smart intuitively. My hair was on end and I didn't understand why. He was a real warrior. When he came back, he would not allow me to sleep in the tent. He kept climbing over me and not letting me get comfortable. Once we got the bed roll and blankets into the car and locked ourselves in - he was okay and let down his guard and we both went to sleep and got a good night's sleep. I would find out the following week that my friends were gone and the Divide, CO police and forestry service told me that the weekend of the 4th of July that 6 campsites of people disappeared from the Crags campground on the west side of Pikes Peak leaving everything they brought with them at their campsite including vehicles and all camping gear. The police refused to make a report and I left with the total impression that the area I vacationed in as a child - was as corrupt and dark as it gets.
I quit camping up there after 2016 - beautiful area - creepy things go down there in the mountains.
I braced myself for the “Seagull Lung”🤣🤣 I’m relieved knowing it was just the ballentines day promo
ol SEAGULL LUNG
I actually turned the speaker volume down, being certain it was coming.
I love Seagull Lung
@@schwizelled I'm glad I'm not the only one who grabs the desk and braces for SEAGULL LUNG!!!!
dr crippin😂😂😂
"Real photo of a deck of cards"
Glad THAT was cleared up! 😂
Lol, I remember one of Ballen’s older videos, one of the pics he used for illustration was a still from “the walking dead”, and someone commented about that particular still giving their insight into what happened like it was a real photo from the story😂 it was probably a kid but I wonder if that’s the reason mr ballen clears that up for EVERY still/photo he uses LOL
@@Hihowqreyou lol... sorry I missed that!
I remember "real photo of potato" 😂
Love the way u tell the stories haven't found anyone that compares. 😊
Mr ballen your an amazing story teller and the stories you cover, you empathetic with victims and their families and much respect for what you've gone through and what you do for others, I came across Mr e files from comments in your videos and he has the same compassion would be great to see a collaboration
I'm currently in bed sick feeling miserable. This helps. MrBallen videos make everything better.
Get well soon 🙏 Binge watching Mr Ballen will help!
Not if the story is about you.
Mrballen's videos are beautiful, I hope you will watch my channel's videos, all new horror stories are there.
Me too.. luckily we have MrBallen.. feel well
@@IronicallyVague 😂😂 very true
This is the first time I've heard that it was only organs etc in the basement rather than usually being described as his wife's remains, or her decomposed body. I've heard and read about Dr Crippen many times over the years but this just makes it a WTF moment.
If he were innocent then why did he try to run, even if the body didn’t belong to his wife?
@@lacountessmaybe he was a murderer still but didn’t murder his wife. this shit is so confusing lol
@@ethan-rayya it could be anything like even that he might had been compelled to help another murderer for some reason and knew noone would listen to him and so he tried to escape
Sadly we will never know
Maybe Belle wasn’t a woman…
@@dinkbaletti6376dna
There's not many things more fun than acting unaffected by someone yelling at you and watching them get more frustrated because of it
One of my favourite vintage true crime cases! And your delivery of it was absolute perfection. Not to mention the captions on the photos you use…just awesome. 👌🏻
I know people are going on about Crippin fleeing like that seemed super guilty, and I can agree, but playing Devils' Advocate the other possibility of that whole thing was Crippin and Ethel deciding to sneak out of London because their reputations were completely and utterly ruined thanks to Belle's friends straight framing him for her death and essentially branding him in society as a heartless cheater (all while Belle had done the exact same thing to him and I refuse to believe that none of those good friends of hers knew about it) was better than attempting to stay. When a group like that charity chooses to socially end you, that completely destroys your career and everything as well. They probably figured that sneaking out would cause less noise in this scenario. I still think this guy killed someone, though. Either him, or Ethel did and he was trying to help her cover it up, even if it wasn't Belle that they killed.
But how was Crippen not the one to kill the skin and intestines guy? Im super confused
@@TheIceCube2148 did you miss the part where the op said “I still think this guy killed someone though.”
I have a slight theory that the guy who was killed might have been Belles ex lover or maybe since the doctor was testing out tranquilizer stuff you might have been testing it out on some human parts that he got because that was very normal practice for doctors back then and still today though the hair and pajama fibers don't make sense😅
@@TheIceCube2148The house the Dr. Lived in was previously rented by medical students- it is very likely that they may have been practicing dissections/ operating techniques on stolen corpses. This was an extremely common practice at the time- so much so there were gangs of criminals going around exhuming recently deceased bodies from cemeteries and selling them to medical schools/ doctors for large amounts of money. It goes without saying that this practice was highly illegal, and a motivator for some ambitious but scared students to try to dispose of a body when it started to decompose.
@@TheIceCube2148 Oh, no, I totally believe that Crippin killed the guy or was at least involved in killing him. That's the point I made there at the end. I was just providing an alternate reasoning for him and Ethel skipping town so quickly and under the radar if we're playing with the idea that he wasn't guilty.
We don't know if he was put to death for something he didn't do. We only know that the remains they found were not his wife. Still seems likely that he was involved in the murder of the unidentified man since 1: the man had the same tranquilizers in his body that the doctor created at work. 2: the remains were discovered in his basement. 3: The remains were put there somewhat recently while he had been living there. Although encasing the remains in clay probably hindered the decay process, it isn't likely that they were put there years ago before he moved in. 4: He attempted to flee the country after being notified he was under investigation.
He killed the man, and probably also killed his wife.
This is what I thought too. Maybe the guy who his wife cheated with is laying there under the bricks? The one in the picture frame. But yeah, he ran hard, he was aware of what was in his basement - at the very least.
Her lover perhaps? The boxer man
or... and here me out... the police planted the body and used the tranquilizer from the doctor's office to frame him and create a poison narrative. The whiskey drink and all that is just speculation in this narrative. All we know is that his wife disappeared, he lied initially about why and then "came clean". He could have fled after the initial visit from the detective because he knew they were trying to set him up and everything after is told through the perspective of Scotland Yard.
In civilized countries you're innocent until proven guilty, not innocent unless it seems likely you're guilty.
Doubtful, the guy was too timid to kill anyone. His wife murdered the guy and he covered for her. Also, the court system is sexist by allowing him to take the punishment and not the lady who was running with him even though it would be clearly obvious that she was involved. Feminism has rotted everybody’s brain.
16:34 let’s all give Ethel here a round of applause for single handedly saving the majestic bald eagle by letting it build a nest on top of her head 🙌🏻👏🏻
Here I thought it was merely a dual purpose item of hat combined with cake tin...
best quality story telling i have ever seen. Definitly earned my subscription
Powers flickering in and out, the winds howling and rain is pelting the windows and the best part is Mr.B’s spinning tale. Dam fine evening folks.
Please forward that weather to BC Canada. We've been without rain for months!!
It’s raining here too it’s beautiful combined with Mr. Ballen stories
You sound like you live in my neighborhood. I’m in California and it’s been raining for like 3 days now
@@mikeygrey7992 Send it east!
Gahhh lucky. I wish you a damn fine night also!
I've heard this case several times, but no one ever included that last bit about the forensic testing. Fascinating!
PLEASE bring back missing 411. it was the best!
Always love the content keep up the great work bud 💯
Belle reminds me a little too much of my grandmother (Rest-in-Hell). She did everything she could to destroy your soul. She was especially hard on her husbands, belittling them like Belle did to Dr Crippen. I only saw this with her third husband but I saw enough of the crippled lives she had left in her wake to know she was like this through and through. Surprisingly my father once told me that I should have met HER mother- she was even worse!
sounds like your grandmother and my mother should get together, though, with my mother, it was me she dumped on, not my dad or my "perfect" little sister
Woah, usually I meet people who are meaner than their moms and grandmas. Good on you for being kinder.
@@24get24give I have had the exact same experience with my mother/sister as well !! SMH !!
I find it encouraging when people can freely say how ghastly their relatives are or were! I have some truly revolting ones! They'd probably have either get on like a house on fire with your grandmother or they'd have ended up killing each other...
Reminds me of my grandmother she was terrifying!
Imagine the police departments finance department looking at why are they funding a case that was solved 100 years ago and the man was put to death 90 years ago
❤❤Love your comment 🎉
It was Michigan State University looking into it.
Sounds like most modern government-type funding 👀😬😜
I'm pretty sure it was just a research project not a real investigation
Ballen literally said it was a Michigan state professor, not a police department 😂
Hello from Slovenija. I really enjoy to listen your storys. You are simly the best.
Thank you mr ballen always proud and excited to share your work and life story with friends and loved ones we watch eagerly with popcorn and coco🎉🎉❤❤
As a huge Scooby-Doo fan every time I heard Inspector or Detective Du all I can picture is the Great Dane 😂😅
Freaking same!! 😂
Detective Dew
Same.
@@marilynschmidt6400 Ah, I just based it of the CC, I had to stop myself from spelling it Doo 😂.
What I thought every time I heard his name 😂
"He was tapping on these bricks with a poker..." and it opened up to Diagon Alley!!! 😂
Diagonally 😂
@@alpaverson9793 Were you trying to correct him? Diagon Alley is a place in Harry Potter.
@@SPL1NTER_SE
i’m pretty sure it’s in reference to this scene:
Mrs Weasley: “remember to speak clearly….”
Harry: “DIAGONALLY” 💨
@@justinaweaver3594 ohhh my bad then, haven’t watched them for a long time.
There's poker in the front.......
I was already familiar with this case, but I watched this episode anyway because Mr. Ballen is SUCH an amazing storyteller. He knocked it out of the park, as always.
We appreciate MrBallen's consistency and dedication. We always look forward to see what he had in store for us.
The "NOT a real photo of the whiskey Dr Crippen served" 😂 I get why MrBallen adds it but omg it cracked me up for some reason
Edit: My thought about why he adds it is cuz common sense isn't so common so sometimes you gotta spell things out. AND I love seeing that I'm not the only one who reads the captions and gets entertainment out of them!!
It's always kinda cringey imo
Why is it cringe? It's hilarious @@tentinquarantino3005
I decided to recreate the scene, inspired by the photo. Cheers!!! 😂😂😂🍻
LOL
@@tentinquarantino3005 perhaps, but kinda necessary unfortunately
A gloomy, rainy Sunday. Perfect for some strange, dark, and mysterious.
Wow you must live in Florida because it's raining here
It's gloomy and rainy in winnipeg rn
Same in a lot of places
I was gonna ask if u live in the bay area. But it seems like it's a storm everywhere.
It's a true crime story, like always.
He needs to go back to his old stuff
MrBallen you have a billboard in Austin TX, drove by it for the first time last week. Not gonna lie pretty dope!
You think he's not aware of it? He lives there lol, he probably placed it.
This was an amazingly well narrated story. I took a crime break and now I’m back Mr B! I was one of your first fans
It really hurts when you have to lie because you know that no one would believe truth.
That was my married life for 12 years, just to keep the ex and his parents happy.
I’m seeing this story 25 minutes after it was posted and approximately 30,000 people have already viewed it.
Way to go MrBallen!
Absolutely love how you ask for like it’s so original it’s not needed cause your videos are so good but I always wonder what you will say on you next video your story telling is so good
This was crazy! Thanks MrBallen!
Mr Ballen tells the most horrific stories yet I don’t feel scared because his voice makes me calm and feel safe.
They found a dead body in his house!!! A missing wife, dead body, and a mistress sure he was guilty of something.
His wife could have also done the murder, maybe he got his mistress as a revenge since she cheated on him so he showed the mistress off to her friends, he couls have tried fleeing because it seems like he did not like scandals, and an advertising for belle to return deffo stirs some pots. We will probably never know who did what and what their motivations were
@@Artemis_666nah he shady
@@randomlyswatching9481 we have basically no info, yea he seems shady, so does everyone else in the story imo
One theory is that he was performing illegal operations and the body belonged to a patient who had died during one of these. He couldn't get licensed to practice medicine in the UK because he wasn't a real doctor, so it's plausible that he might have been doing something like that under the table (and, since he didn't have actual medical training, that someone might have died). Generally people were thinking specifically of abortions, which wouldn't fit with the body being male, but it's far from established that the body was male because the sample was tested with an experimental technique.
Another theory is that the police framed him because a) they believed he did it, they just didn't have evidence and b) they were facing a ton of public pressure to solve the case. Personally I think this one is more plausible, it has definitely happened before in other cases.
Along with all that…he tried to flee the country with the mistress…
Uhhmmmm where was the prizefighter she cheated with? That was my first thought.
Mr. Ballen gets me thru the graveyard shift, to spooky to accidentally fall asleep
Ballen you're the MAN!!!! I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the "and we upload 3, 4 and sometimes even 5 times a week" days!!!! Happy for you buddy, keep on keeping on!!!!
There is a book called Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen. It parallels the life of Guglielmo Marconi and Dr. Crippen and how wireless comunication caught Dr. Crippen. Side note, his wife was way worse than was covered here....
She was a special treat, to be sure! 🙄
Yes, I read Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen. He is an amazing writer - Devil in the White City; Dead Wake; Isaac's Storm,; In the Garden of the Beasts; The Splendid and the Vile - I can't get enough of his writing, which is on par with Mr. Ballen's fantastic storytelling.
Ac/DC made a song about it too
I could tell after her first appearance 😂. Any man dealing with a woman like that has to have alot of disadvantages in life. Maybe not financial but in self esteem and other areas.
One of my favorite authors. Came here to suggest him too the second I realized what the case was.
Thunderstruck wasn’t one of my favorites (I think Dead Wake was better) but still a great read.
I watch you ever day it helps my depression 😶🌫️ somewhat. Your a wonderful storyteller😊
I did not want this one to end!!
Could it be that the body found was of the Boxer/lover that Belle cheated with? The one in the picture on the mantle? If so, then I figure that he could have easily disposed of her body. Or, after drugging her, he showed her his handiwork, then told her to be gone before he woke up. Not just out of the house, but out of the country or she'd be next.
Yea that makes sense why he then tried to flee
I was thinking it was the lover too.
Same
I kind of though the same thing. Or maybe it was some random person he "practiced" on first?
He might have made up the part about they guy's picture being on the mantle.
So Belle killed that random man and placed her strands of hair and her husband’s pyjamas at the scene of the crime to make it look like he killed her? Was it revenge
no the DR was probably the killer of that man,as for Belle she probably did just dip and live a whole another life somewhere else
Or the husband killed another man and tried to hide his body there. He was trying to escape, so he probably did something.
I was thinking maybe the doctor killed the guy who belle had the affair with. Would explain her hairs being on it and the drugs. Due to from Ballen description the guy was bigger then the Doctor.
But your theory makes alot of sense.
@@FatesKarma. yeah that makes the most sense to me,unfortunately we will 100% never know :/
@@FatesKarma. I agree with your theory that the victim was the fighter that the wife had been cheating with. But that leads to the real question. Where was the wife???
Can't wait for Ballentines Day!! 🥰💯
I really enjoy this program keep going we love it.
If it wasn't Belle's body, how come the birthmark on the piece of skin matched Belle's birthmark? Also, burying body parts in clay can delay the decomposition process. If Crippen wanted to escape the country after committing a murder, he could have bought some time to hide the smell. But overall details of this case just don't add up.
Crippen might have killed both Belle and her lover and mutilated both bodies enough so they couldn't be identified. Also, how could a meek man like Crippen find his wife's lover? Maybe he hired a hit man and killed them that way.
it depends. There can be confirmation bias, there can be a birthmark that was not that uncommon.
The remains have subsequently been found to be male. They were not his wife.
They faked evidence .. pretty obvious they were convinced he was a killer ..
@siangoodwin867 Except they haven't been confirmed as such, except by the toxicologist, Trestrail, who was making the claim, on a tv documentary on Five, using his 'special technique', that was 'very new' and 'only done by his team'. In essence, this supposed DNA evidence and Trestrail's claim have already been disputed.
Belle is treating her husband like the like button 😂
The view of mrballen as he said „and that really hurt her feelings“ 5:36 is priceless 😂😂
Inspector Walter Dew sounds like a name from a cheesy detective novel. A real well-to-do chap
“All the Dr. wanted, was his wife to stop bit…ranting and raving”😂 6:58
hahaha imagine MrBallen going "aww man, i did it again", then searching for synonyms online...
Dr Crippen is really all of us huh…
I thought something was amiss at that edit. 😂 Good catch!
Inspector Do? Yeah, okay. I see you, Scoobert.
That’s what I was thinking the whole time 😂
was looking for this comment
Brooo that plot twist at the end was insane
Can't get enough of your story's you are #1 none above.
I've already binged all your amazon podcasts. Now idk what to do with my life.
It's like waiting for a check!❤
@@AnastasiaFafo I stg!!!!!
Same I randomly listen to them.
We all been there brother, I sitll remember just binging every single one of these and then feeling empty 😂😂
Really makes you wonder where Belle went all those years ago and who the random guy was underneath his house
Random guy was the square jaw man, I'm confident of that
id start by trying to find out what dead male bodies were supposed to be in the morgue at scotland yard that week. I have a feeling that miraculous discovery wasnt as miraculous as we think.
She got away with murder.
@@nrgao Interesting
@@jonseon5952what square jaw man?..
Great video as always Mr B
u comfort me so much john, i always come to u after a stressful day
Listening to this story and how it ended I believe the doctor had only one regret and that is not killing her.
Love your story telling I’ve listened to everything single video you’ve uploaded while I work. I clean equipment in hospital after /before surgery and it keeps me focus(Central Processing tech) can’t wait to listen to today video.
Mrballen's videos are beautiful, I hope you will watch my channel's videos, all new horror stories are there.
Sterilization unit? 🙌
Did my alternative service year there, back in year 2000ish. Too bad there was no MrBallen TH-cam, yet, because I'd damn sure have done the same while working.
THEN YOUR MIND ISN'T ON YOUR JOB PROPERLY THEN ARE YOU ? CENTRAL PROCESSING TECH, 🤣🤣🤣 POISH WORD FOR A KNIFE SCRUBBER THAT ON MINIMUM WAGE🤣
Thank you!!
@paulbowman1762 sounds like a pretty important job to me. Probably one that should pay a living wage too.
I love your stories!!!!!
Love all your stories. ❤❤❤❤
Just wanted to say that I've been watching your channel for 3 years now and you're a hell of a story teller, bro! I like putting on one of your playlists at night and fall asleep listening to you telling tales! Thanks for all of the content, my friend! Sik
This was great, but I think we also need a part two! Lots of questions to answer or theories to speculate on...
Bro wtf that's crazy I've been subbed before you were at 1million subs now you almost 9 mil crazy bro great work
❤️💜 Happy Ballenstime Day! 🎉
"They were both theater people." was so relatable. Lol.
John was a badass in the military and now he is a badass story teller.
How u know?
@elplaga1830 he was in special forces you have to be a badass to be in the special forces.
NAKED HOMELESS MAN INSIDE A HOME DEPOT JUMPS ONTO SOMEONE'S SHOPPING CART, SQUATS OVER THE CART, AND POOPS INTO THE CART! BIG SHINY POOP SITS NICELY BETWEEN A BOX OF DECK SCREWS AND SOME DRYWALL MUD! NAKED HOMELESS MAN, WEARING ONLY FLIP FLOPS, TRIES TO RUN AWAY AND THE WEENER VIOLENTLY SLAPS SIDE TO SIDE MAKING SLAPPING SOUNDS. THEN A SECURITY GUARD TACKLES THE NAKED HOMELESS MAN!
@@reddog6415Fart that was wet, leaves poop residue on rim. Residue builds up until BUT WHOLE is completely clogged. Then, after eating Mexican food, the clogged BUTT gets blown open by an Ol' Faithful geyser of diarrhea. A crowd gathered nearby to witness the massive eruption
this one hit different. absolute banger‼️🫶
my theorie about this is that the male they found, was most likely the first person he killed or maybe even the husband/boyfriend of his new girlfriend, they did it together, they killed their partners.
or he was a serial killer and the male found in the basement was his first murder and he didn't know how to get rid of it so he dismembered it, as it's the insides of the body that smell the worst so putting it in clay makes sense, also after finding out that the way he got rid of the actual body worked better, he did that to his wife.
or, he and his wife killed the man and she just ran to america to never be seen again.
See’s Mr.Ballen uploaded*
Me in my best Ice Cube impersonation*: “Today was a good day!” 💯🗿
I wish MrBallen would bring back the 4-5 times a week schedule… but it does make my Sunday
Yeah, those were the good ol days😌 I like the podcast and the medical mysteries, but honestly would rather have several actual videos like this every week, theyre way more fun than the audio only uploads, which mostly are just retellings of old stories
@@steverobertson1729 What I miss are the hidden items in every video, even if I never found them I was so focused on the story, lol. I think the last time was in a video about some guy at Burning Man.
100 years to find out what happened? Wow. Very cool.
I'm actually watching this video on Valentine's day 2024 😮🤯
Happy Ballentines's Day 👻