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T\u2019was the fall of 1882, and Nicholas Dukes had a lot going for him. He was a prominent attorney. He\u2019d just been elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. To top it all off, he was engaged to Lizzie Nutt. Lizzie came from a prominent family and was hot as hell. But as Nicholas and Lizzie got to know one another better, Nicholas became concerned. She was flirty. Forward. It was possible she wasn\u2019t a virgin! (Neither was he, but that didn\u2019t matter.) Nicholas was disgusted to find himself engaged to a woman who wanted to have sex with him. So he told her father.\xa0\n
\n\nOn the afternoon of October 2, 1998, 15-year-old Zach Witman called the police. He\u2019d just discovered his 13-year-old brother, Greg, dead in their home. Zach told the dispatcher, \u201cI came downstairs, and the door was cracked and he was lying there. Just lying there! Gone! Gone! Gone! Gone! Why? Why? Why?\u201d Greg had been stabbed multiple times -- to the point of near decapitation.\xa0\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cDemon in a bottle: the Dukes/Nutt affair,\u201d by Paul Slade for PlanetSlade\xa0\n\u201cAn honorable vengeance: the Dukes-Nutt saga,\u201d developed by Rachel Zajac for the Uniontown Public Library\xa0\n\u201cA matter of honor,\u201d Murder by Gaslight
\n\u201c19th century Dukes-Nutt murder scandal subject of new exhibit and book,\u201d by Frances Borsodi for the Herald Standard\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cThe Witmans\u201d documentary\n\u201cCommonwealth v. Witman\u201d findlaw.com\n\n\u201cGregory fought for life\u201d by Rick Lee and Teresa Ann Boeckel, York Daily Record\n\u201cIn the jurors\u2019 hands\u201d by Rick Lee and Teresa Ann Boeckel, York Daily Record\n\u201cI killed my brother: Zachary Witman admits to gruesome 1998 murder; parole now possible\u201d WITF.org\n\n\u201cThe Untold Truth Of The Witman Murder Case\u201d by Aimee Lamoureux, grunge.com\n\n
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