This might be surprising coming from me, but I often find myself wondering why crime dramas and documentaries have exploded in popularity, perhaps at the expense of other genres. I’m obviously guilty, as an actor, for my part in this, with roles in Trigger Point and Line of Duty.
But with my new Sky History series, Britain’s Murder Map, my husband – historian Jonny Owen – and I hoped to do something different. We wanted to focus on the forgotten victims.
Their own stories have never really emerged. Why is that and why did the women never get the justice they deserved?
Jemima MacDonald, 31, was also a single mother. According to police, “she appeared to be extremely fond of male company and highly promiscuous”.
It’s shocking to read these words, fuelled by misogyny, as part of the police investigation. I wanted to get closer to the women and find out what they were really like. I met their families to get a truer picture and now I’ll never get the women’s faces and stories out of my mind.
But do you know the story of his victim? His wife, music hall singer Cora Crippen, has been relegated to a footnote in the history books.
A book on the case, The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen by Filson Young, published in 1920, shaped how it has been viewed for a century. Seeing how Cora is portrayed makes for a difficult read. She’s said to be “filthy,” does not quite keep up with the housework and, he says, doesn’t have a scrap of ability as a performer. Cora’s murder is almost excused by focusing on what was supposedly wrong with her. It’s a form of victim blaming that, along with misogyny and violence against women, still plagues society.
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