FRIDAY FOLLOW-UP: Sex, Lies, and Murder: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Harry Thaw

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday Follow-Up, we tweak one of our earliest episodes after Amber's later research uncovered that an aspect of this case has been wrongly reported for decades. It was one of the most salacious stories the country had ever heard: A famous architect had been gunned down in front of an audience of hundreds by a man who said he was defending his wife's honor. It so happened the wife was the world's first supermodel. The love triangle among architect Stanford White, model and showgirl Evelyn Nesbit and millionaire unhinged man Harry Kendell Thaw reached its climax on June 24, 1906. With hundreds of witnesses, the case was never a whodunit. Rather, it was a gripping tale of sex, lies and murder.

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0:00.0	Hey true crime fans, tired of ads interrupting your gripping investigations.
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0:31.0	Hi Crimes at the the centuries listeners.
0:33.2	Every now and then a case I've covered has some kind of development, whether it's new to
0:38.1	everyone or just new to me.
0:40.7	Maybe an author will explore a new angle or something that had been accepted as true is found to not be after all.
0:47.0	The journalist in me wants to update and correct, but that's not really feasible when an episode has been out a long time and so I've decided to do
0:54.4	occasional bonus episodes on Fridays that I'll call Friday follow-ups.
0:59.2	Today marks the first one.
1:00.9	I'm returning to season one episode 11, which is a fascinating the first it girl
1:04.3	I'm returning to season one episode 11 which is a fascinating case about America's
1:06.0	first it girl Evelyn Nesbit the man who assaulted her and the other man who
1:11.1	killed him years after the fact.
1:13.5	I included this case in my book Crimes of the Centuries,
1:16.2	the cases that changed us,
1:18.0	and when I fact-checked more contemporary news sources,
1:20.8	I found that some of my original sources had been incorrect when they said the case
1:25.2	marked the first time a jury was ever sequestered. That was apocryphal, a supposed fact that
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