The infamous Manhattan Well Murder became the first sensationalized US murder trial in 1800, and a new podcast finally focuses on the victim at its center: Elma Sands, a 22-year-old found dead at the bottom of a well.
Levi Weeks, Sands’s lover, was tried for (and acquitted of) her murder. His legal team comprised the most famous pair of legal rivals in US history, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
