S3 Ep25: The Eva Hamilton Scandal

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At a brothel in New York in 1885, the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Ray Hamilton, met con artist Evangeline Steele. Steele was looking to make their part-time relationship permanent and soon told Hamilton that she was pregnant with his child. They married in January 1889 and shortly after, the marriage began to fall apart. On the morning of August 26, 1889 while on vacation in Atlantic City, Ray asked for a divorce and Eva refused. After a bottle of whiskey and an argument with Mary Ann Donnelly, their daughter Beatrice's nurse, Eva stabbed Mary Ann and was arrested and charged with attempted murder. In today's episode we learn more about Eva's trial, secrets of her relationship with Ray and Beatrice, and the scandal that shocked New York society.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, so a funny story, I wrote the crimes of the sentries book.
0:06.5	I think it's my seventh publication though.
0:08.9	I have no problem telling you that there are only like four books that I'd actually
0:12.5	want you to read.
0:13.5	This is one of them.
0:14.5	It's coming out January 16th, 2024.
0:17.1	I'll be doing reading at this year's Obsess Fest and I want you to know that the book
0:20.8	is available for pre-order right now at sentriespot.com slash book.
0:24.8	It worked really hard to make it something that you'd like even if you know the episode
0:28.6	verbatim, so there are a lot of new details and some deeper research that I'm really
0:33.0	proud of.
0:34.0	So if books are your bag, please consider going to sentriespot.com slash book.
0:45.6	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even
0:53.8	earn the label crime of the century.
0:57.8	But the stories that made headlines and decades passed aren't necessarily remembered
1:02.4	today.
1:04.4	I member Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine
1:09.5	a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:16.0	This is crimes of the sentries.
1:30.5	When the world first heard that the great grandson of American founding father, Alexander Hamilton,
1:36.1	was mired in controversy, the tale seemed to be centered on murder.
1:42.5	Robert Ray Hamilton's wife had been arrested and charged with stabbing the wet nurse the
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