Famous Cases
- 1942 Rachel Dobkin, murdered by her husband Harry
- 1942 Joan Pearl Wolfe, victim of August Sangret in the “Wigwam murder”.
- 1943 The Bethnal Green tube station disaster.
- 1946 Margery Gardner, murdered by Neville Heath.
- 1946 Consultant for the Surrey Police on the “Chalk-pit Murder”.
- 1948 The death of Ananda Mahidol, King Ananda of Siam, Simpson’s first case outside England, when a Major-General of the Police of Siam asked his help interpreting what had happened.
- 1948 The “Gorringe case”, in which Simpson used forensic odontology (the identification of an individual from their teeth and bite marks) to seal a murder conviction against Robert Gorringe for the murder of his wife Phyllis, one of the first recorded instances of such evidence being used in an English court.
- 1949 After searching through slurry, Dr Simpson found gallstones and bones that identified Mrs Durand Deacon as a victim of the "Acid Bath Murderer", John George Haigh.
- 1953 Exhumation of Beryl Evans after John Christie confessed to her murder. Dr Simpson acted for Christie, observing the exhumation and autopsy, which was performed by Francis Camps.
- 1956 Acted for the Medical Defence Union in the defence of Dr John Bodkin Adams, acquitted of murdering one of his patients.
- 1961 Michael Gregston and Valerie Storie, victims of James Hanratty, the “A6 murderer”.
- 1964 The Lydney Murder, an unidentified body near Lydney, and a significant case in the development of entomology for criminal investigation.
- 1966 George Cornell, victim of the Kray twins.
- 1967 Invited by the Canadian government to review the case of Steven Truscott after publication of the book The Trial of Steven Truscott on the case by Isabel LeBourdais.
- 1974 Sandra Rivett, victim of Lord Lucan.
- 1975 Leslie Newson, driver in the Moorgate tube crash.
- 1982 Roberto Calvi, Vatican banker. The cause of death was asphyxia by hanging from Blackfriars Bridge.
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—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
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