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Stanford White was an Architect whos work still grace the New York City Landscape. His most famous work was the second Madison Square Garden. He was also a womanizer and was no in some circles for his appetite for young women. He even had a dedicated apartment for such escapades.

One woman he would lure to his den of debauchery was aspiring actress Evelyn Nesbit. Stanford white would sexually assault her and take her virginity. Something that would upset her future husband millionaire heir Harry Thaw. 

June 25, 1906 while stopping in New York Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit would randomly come across White. At a show on the rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden Harry Thaw would murder Stanford White.  

The trail of the century the papers called it. The murder was so sensational that for the first time in American History the jury had to be sequestered. 

In this episode we explore the full story behind White's murder. All the details of the trail and the aftermath.