Crime Candy

I did it because he ruined my wife!


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One beautiful girl, two extravagant and prominent men. Throw in jealousy and a family history of mental instability and you have the recipe for a shocking murder, at an outdoor theater in the heart of New York City in front of nearly a thousand witnesses. The trial that followed was quickly dubbed "the trial of the century." The 1907 trial, and a second the next year after the first jury hung, helped closed the curtains on America's "Gilded Age."





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Evelyn Nesbit - Wikipedia

The Love Triangle | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

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Historian writes true-crime account of Evelyn Nesbit scandal (brooklyneagle.com)

Story of Evelyn Nesbit and the Thaw-White Murder

The 100-Foot Gibson Girl: A Symbol of Abuse, Then and Now - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Trials of Harry Thaw for the Murder of Stanford White (famous-trials.com)

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