Murder of Elizabeth Chantrelle
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Murder of Elizabeth Chantrelle
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Eugène Marie Chantrelle murdered his wife and former pupil Elizabeth Chantrelle on 2 January 1878, and was convicted for his crimes and hanged at Calton Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland. The trial is claimed to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in which the socially respectable character Henry Jekyll has a violent and monstrous alter-ego named Edward Hyde. Stevenson met Eugène Chantrelle, the basis for Jekyll/Hyde, at the home of Victor Ri
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1878 murder case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Elizabeth_Chantrelle
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2024-04-26T04:27:32Z
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