The Stanford White Murder & NYC's First "Crime of the Century"
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Season 17, Episode 4
The Murder of Stanford White
Architect Stanford White was one of New York’s most revered architects who built the second Madison Square Garden & the Washington Square Arch, which stand today. In public, he was a bon vivant who moved with old school wealthy and the nouveau riche. He was also a creep who participated in the sexual assault of several young women as part of a group of entitled men in New York’s high society. A Creep, Harry Thaw, killed him on June 25, 1906, because of one such assault on actress Evelyn Nesbit who was 16.
The trials of Harry Thaw caught the nation’s interest and are a part of NYC lore. In this episode, we will discuss the major players and what happened to Evelyn after she outlived the Creeps.
Trigger warning: Sexual assault and abuse
Sources for this episode:
Death of Stanford White Wiki
Avenue Magazine
Town & Country Magazine
Famous Trials.com
PBS American Experience
The New York Times Archives
House Beautiful
The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz
And for our non-creep: One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States and Cuba this week. And last week Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Fionia. Here’s a list of organizations that are accepting donations for those impacted by both hurricanes Ian and Fiona.
Red Cross
Caring for Others, an Atlanta-based nonprofit addressing poverty caused by natural disasters, is coordinating its “Caring Convoy” to transport relief supplies to Florida.
Americares is working with 148 local clinics and community health centers in Florida.
Global Giving accepts donations to provide food, emergency supplies, and more throughout Cuba and Florida.
Roots of Hope, a nonprofit Cuban youth organization, collects donations to help Cuban families.
Convoy of Hope is providing relief supplies in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican Civic Club is raising funds for solar lights and gas generators for Puerto Rico
Global health and humanitarian Project HOPE mobilize emergency responders in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Donate to their Fiona relief fund here.
Animal Lighthouse Rescue is raising money to repair its sister shelter in Puerto Rico, El Faro de Los Animales, which was damaged in the hurricane.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Marco Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.2 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:09.0 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the |
| 0:13.6 | worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome back to What A Creep. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Marco Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:36.2 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello my friend. |
| 0:40.2 | Today we have an old tiny creep, New York City history creep. |
| 0:46.0 | If you guys, y'all excuse me, have seen HBO's The Guilded Age. |
| 0:52.4 | One of the characters in there is actually a real person, Stanford White. |
| 0:56.7 | He was an architect and he built a lot of really beautiful buildings in New York. |
| 1:01.6 | New York, excuse me, in Rhode Island. |
| 1:04.3 | And he is a part of a very creepy murder, his own, by the way, part of it. |
| 1:10.4 | He was the main attraction. |
| 1:12.6 | And he was the main attraction. |
| 1:14.8 | And we'll get into his story in a second if this is your first time listening. |
| 1:18.2 | What we do is that we pick a creep from the past to the present. |
| 1:21.2 | And then the other person is challenged to come up with a non creep, either a person |
| 1:26.3 | or a group of people or we'll tell you something special. |
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