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Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.

But the stories that made headlines in decades past, I don't necessarily remember today.

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author. And in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case

that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries.

The crowd that had gathered on the roof of Madison Square Garden, the evening of June 25th, 1906, had settled in for the second act of a new musical comedy called Memzel Champagne.

The high society folk attending the premiere were listening to the chorist in a deceptively-rescuing number called,

I Could Love a Million Girls. Near the front of the audience was Stanford White, one of New York City's most famous architects,

a millionaire and well-known theater aficionado. As the cheering number continued, a strange-looking man

haltingly approached White's table. He was strange because he was wearing a heavy winter coat despite the hot-dune weather.

The man's stare was fixed on White, as he pulled a pistol from his coat, pointed it at White, and fired three shots.

For a split second, the stage and crowd went silent. The latter trying to rationalize what they'd seen as having been part of the performance,

someone even laughed, but then reality set in, one of the bullets had torn White's face off.

As people started to scream and scatter, the gunman raised the pistol over his head to show he was no threat to anyone else and yelled,

that man ruined my wife.

And so began one of the most bizarre and scandalous cases of the early 20th century.

One with a trial so high profile that it would be the first time in American history that the empanel jury would have to be sequestered.

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