Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and America’s First Murder Trial

From the Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Manhattan Well: How Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton United to Solve a Murder Mystery.

Dylan Thuras, the host of the podcast, discusses with Lauren Willig how Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Brockholst Livingston investigating the murder of a young woman named Elma Sands, and involved in various ways in the murder trial of her boyfriend Levi Weeks.

Bibliography:

Estelle Fox Kleiger, The Trial of Levi Weeks: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the First Recorded Murder Trial in US History (forthcoming, Chicago Review Press, 2025).

Lauren Willig, The Girl From Greenwich Street: A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s First Murder Trial (William Morrow, 2025).

More about Levi Weeks here.

Footnoting History: The Weeks Murder Trial

Historical Society of the New York Courts. People v. Levi Weeks, 1800.