If only Evelyn Nesbit were alive today, she may have really appreciated the Me Too movement, good therapy, and the songs of Aimee Mann. But her life happened during the turn of the Century- not this one- the last one. And guess what? She also was part of the first actual Trial of the Century! Full of misogyny, murder, and velvet red swings. Beth and Kelly of the century’s most famous Strange Country podcast love that term - Trial of the Century-and use it rather loosely. But in today’s episode we tightened things up, researched our brains out, like always, and bring to you a story from the past you are sure to enjoy. Read on listeners. Or listen on readers.
Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.
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“Evelyn Nesbit.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit.
“Harry Kendall Thaw.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Aug. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw.
Phillips, Mark, and Aryn Z. Phillips. Trials of the Century a Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America's Most Sensational Crimes. Prometheus Books, 2016.
“Trial of the Century.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Aug. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_century.