The Four Wives of Dr Clements

A modern Bluebeard killer

In 1947, a friend of Robert George Clement told the Liverpool Echo, “he and his wife were a devoted couple. I don’t know of a more devoted couple in Southport. His wife would accompany Clements every morning as he got on the train and would meet him there as he came back. She had no eyes for anybody but her husband.”

However, this was not everyone's view, and it soon became apparent that there was something sinister about the good doctor. The most obvious clue to his hidden character was that four separate women had been called Mrs Clements, and none of them was alive to talk about the marriage. Moreover, three of these wives had inherited a great fortune and died poor.