So who did the lumps of flesh under the cellar floor belong to? The plot thickens! I'm delighted that Crippen appears to have been proved innocent at 100 years.
I'd just like to point out a couple of things:
1) His wife was NOT British, she was American.
2) The mitochondrial DNA, used to determine that this was not the remains of Cora Crippen, is passed down by a mother to all her children, males and females alike. Males cannot pass it on, only females.
Your newspaper is not the only one to incorrectly assume this.
Just prior to Crippen's execution, the Governor of the prison received a letter, purporting to come from Cora Crippen, alive and well in America, denying that he had murdered her. The Governor passed the letter to Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, who put the letter in his pocket and said not a word about it. He could have stayed the execution.

Cathy Kitchener, Storrington.,

leave a mystery a mystery,obscured in the foggy maze of history

stephen, london, england

Jerry....
Why didn't she step forward? I'd say revenge, that dish best served cold.

Why was she never spotted? Firstly people were not looking for her. She was supposed to be dead after all. Secondly, in those days communications were awful so news didn't travel well.

The reason behind muntilation is perfectly explained if (as the theory goes), he was performing illegal abortions. The damage to the body would be neccersary to hide this and the victims identity should something go wrong.

Lance, Crawley, UK

It won't be long before Attila the Hun is proved to be just an innocent bystander.

Paul, Rochester, UK

A woman scorned?

If he fled his marital home to run off with his mistress, isn't it possible that his wife may have sat back and allowed him to be executed as a form of revenge?

Mark S, Blackpool,

Cora's disappearance is the big hole in this idea. She did not take any of her things with her, and Ethel Le Neve was subsequently seen wearing some of her jewellery. Also Crippen faked a letter from her, so he knew no real letter would ever come, even if he did not kill her.

As far as I know, Cora Crippen never had any children, so there cannot be any descendants to get mitochondrial DNA from! But newspaper articles often use the word descendants in this loose fashion.

Another theory I have read is that Ethel Le Neve was the murderer. Can she really have been the sweet naive creature that she is always portrayed as?

alexandria, Sheffield, UK

The remains found recently buried in Crippen's cellar had a scar just where Mrs Crippen had. What evidence have the research team for their statement that this was incorrect?

It suggests the team went into this determined to prove the body had been misidentified and, like so many researchers (and documentary makers), conveniently ignored and glossed over any evidence that contradicted their claim.

If they're trying to clear Crippen's name they are doing a very bad job. To bury the body of botched abortion patient like this would be a far, far worse crime in the eyes of Crippen's contemporaries than murdereing a domineering wife!

Roger Tilbury, Worthing, England

So can we rule out suicide?

Andrew Milner, Karuizawa, Nagano

O.K. but where did Mrs. Crippen disappear to? Why didn't
she step forward and announce herself. Why was she never
spotted and reported to be alive? Who sheltered her?
She seems to have disappeared into thin air.
Fled and lived the rest of her life under a assumed name?
Why?
Sherlock where are you?
And why the mutilation? Why not just bury the body?

Jerry Scroggin, Phoenix, Arizona/USA