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Inspector Dew and his sergeant can see that she's quite discombobulated by their appearance. They all get on the bus, this is 1910. The police have a very cursory look around, nothing suspicious,. Nothing to see here and they go away. Inspector Dew decided to go back to the house a few days later to ask some more questions but by then Ethel and Eve and Holly Crippen were gone.

In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from their treasurer – a singer who went by the name Belle Elmore. It said that she suddenly had to travel to the United States, and that she was resigning from her position.

Several weeks later, at the Music Hall Ladies Guild fundraising ball, Belle's husband arrived with a date. And she was wearing Belle's brooch.

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