Sidney Harry Fox
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Sidney Harry Fox was a British petty swindler and convicted murderer. He was executed for the murder of his mother in an attempt to obtain money from an insurance policy on her life. His case is unusu
Sidney Harry Fox, police mugshot
Bernard Spilsbury
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Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury was an English pathologist. His cases include Hawley Crippen, the Seddon case, the Major Armstrong poisoning, the "Brides in the Bath" murders by George Joseph Smith, the C
Sidney Harry Fox
…the gas stove, supposedly the source of the flames, made Fox's story inconsistent. As a result, Mrs Fox's body was exhumed for forensic examination. Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Dr Roche Lynch performed the post-mortem and deduced that Mrs Fox had been strangled, due to a bruise on her larynx, and the absence of soot in her…
Photograph of Spilsbury taken in the 1920s.
Spilsbury (foreground), pictured at the scene of the second of the Crumbles murders — that of Emily Kaye. 4 May 1924.