Due to the nature of this case, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder, abuse, torture, kidnapping, self-harm, harm against minors and sexual abuse of minors.

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen.

In the United States, jury duty is considered a civic responsibility, one that comes with very different stakes depending upon the case.

In 1935, 12 men from Westchester County, New York

were tasked with rendering a life or death verdict in a murder trial.

The crime was so shocking and the testimony so perverse that the judge chose to ban women from the courtroom for portions of the trial.

Witnesses felt the need to speak in euphemisms and people routinely broke out into tears at the gruesome

nature of the evidence presented. But the jury's decision on whether to send the accused

to the electric chair didn't come down to

did he commit the crime or not it ultimately rested on a more complicated question

when Albert Fish abducted and murdered a 10-year-old girl in cold blood,

dismembered her corpse, and ate her flesh for his own sexual gratification, did he know it was wrong?

I'm Vanessa Richardson and this is Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday.

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