C. Alexander Hortis
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xx, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned...