Introducing- Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-two-year-old Elma Sands is found murdered in a Manhattan well on January 2, 1800. Her lover, wealthy and well-connected Levi Weeks, is accused of the barbaric offense. Weeks brings in the nation’s best legal defense team – none other than Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr – to clear his name while a pandemic-stricken New York City buzzes with scandal. This six-episode true story unfolds over the unbelievable two-day trial that laid the sexist roots of today’s justice system. Through flashbacks and testimony recreated in modernized language and narrated by Allison Flom, Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands investigates history’s chronic erasure of women and highlights the toils of Catherine Ring, a 27-year-old Quaker woman who took on the nation’s best legal team to preserve her cousin Elma’s name.

Starring & executive produced by Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls) as Catherine Ring, Tony Goldwyn (Scandal, Ghost) as Alexander Hamilton, Barry Scheck (Innocence Project founder) as Aaron Burr and Jason Flom (Wrongful Conviction) as Judge John Lansing.

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0:00.0	Juror number one, how do you find the defendant?
0:04.0	A brand new historical true crime podcast.
0:07.0	What are you doing? Let go of me!
0:10.0	Her name was Julie Elma, but everyone called her Elma.
0:14.0	Elma Sands was 22 when she was murdered in New York City.
0:18.0	It's a shame your entire case rests on a 27-year-old woman cold.
0:22.0	It's a shame your case rests on proximity to money and power Hamilton.
0:26.0	Her body was found discarded and the man hadn't well.
0:29.0	On the 2nd of January, 1800.
0:32.0	For the brutal beating and felonious murder of Julie Elma Sands,
0:35.0	the prisoner Levi Weeks pleads not guilty.
0:38.0	Even with defense lawyers, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on the case,
0:43.0	this is probably the most famous trial you've never heard of.
0:48.0	I'm Alison Flown, and this is Erased, the murder of Elma Sands.
0:54.0	Everybody liked her. She was a sweet, happy, virtuous girl.
0:59.0	Until she met that man right there.
1:01.0	Filling in the gaps from the court records,
1:03.0	I've reconstructed the story with actors I love to share it with you.
1:07.0	Can we make this simpler?
1:08.0	I don't need anything simplified, Mr. Hamilton, thank you.
1:12.0	Maybe you can figure out why.
1:14.0	223 years later, we have a justice system built on Elma's story.
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