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When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn\'t immediately worry. But when she still hadn\'t returned days later, all eyes turned to her lover -- whom she\'d supposedly been set to marry the last time she was seen alive. Levi Weeks came from a family with money, so his rich brother did something that was unheard of at this point in American history: He hired fancy lawyers. And that\'s how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ended up on the same side defending a man against murder charges in 1800.\\xa0
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\\nThe case, referenced in Lin Manuel Miranda\'s award-winning musical "Hamilton," marks two firsts: The defense panel was America\'s first legal Dream Team, and the Weeks\' case was the first recorded murder trial in the country\'s history.
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\\n"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.
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