27. Lethal Love Triangle | The Murder of Stanford White
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The architect Stanford White (1853-1906) is credited with a host of landmark structures in New York City and beyond, but it was his sexual predation of young girls, especially the model Evelyn Nesbit, that led to his shockingly public murder and the 1907 "Trial of the Century" in its aftermath. Society figures, sexual secrets, professional jealousies, and courtroom dramas: if only Dominick Dunne had owned a time machine!
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:18.9 | We are back today for another episode in our New York State of Crime season, and |
| 0:23.8 | we finally made it to the turn of the century, investigators. Our man Dominic was not alive at the time, |
| 0:32.4 | naturally, in the 19-0s. All of the scene that we're going to talk about today shakes down long before |
| 0:40.0 | done will begin his true crime-lucky lewing or his true crime reporting. |
| 0:46.5 | But if there were a way, two-time travel, Dominic would have been on the front row for |
| 0:52.1 | this one, investigators. This case contains all the pieces that make |
| 0:57.5 | a story intriguing for our man Nick, power and privilege and justice and where they all connect |
| 1:05.7 | and where they all go wrong. This week, it is a lethal love triangle indeed. We will be investigating the murder of |
| 1:14.1 | Stanford White, the premier architect of the day. Stanford was shot in June of 1906 by a man named |
| 1:22.8 | Harry Thaw. Harry is a prominent and mentally unstable, very, very wealthy son of a very important family. |
| 1:32.3 | What causes the murder? Harry becomes consumed with the need to avenge the honor of his |
| 1:39.1 | young bride, Evelyn Nesbitt. Let's investigate. If the name Evelyn Nesbit is familiar to you and rings the bell, I'm not surprised. |
| 2:06.6 | If her face is familiar to you as well, I'm even less surprised. |
| 2:11.6 | Evelyn will begin her rise as an artist model in the time of breakthroughs in advertising. Her face is on a lot of products. |
| 2:21.8 | Evelyn is used as a model for the famous Gibson girl, drawn famously by Charles Dana Gibson. |
| 2:29.0 | Evelyn was the model used by Lucy Mod Montgomery to craft the look of Anne of Green Gables. |
| 2:36.6 | Evelyn Nesbit is mythologized in Hollywood as well as literary history. |
| 2:42.0 | Her story is told in the 1955 film called The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, starring Joan Collins. |
| 2:49.6 | Evelyn Nesbitt has an appearance in a book and play called |
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