Evelyn Nesbit & the Trial of the Century

Published: March 26, 2012, 9:37 p.m.

b'The Trial of the Century was a smoking- hot mess that made a mockery of justice and ultimately destroyed the life of\\xa0 the luminously beautiful It Girl\\xa0 Evelyn Nesbit.\\xa0 Her cracked-out husband, Pittsburgh heir Harry K. Thaw, shot her paramour, world- class architect Stanford White, in the FACE, killing him before hundreds of witnesses.\\xa0\\xa0 The resulting arrests, court cases, and aftermath gripped a nation obsessed with the kinky stories of the rich and famous.\\xa0 And NONE of this is exaggeration.'