{"id":6591,"date":"2025-07-04T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:59:16","slug":"aaron-burr-alexander-hamilton-and-americas-first-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/aaron-burr-alexander-hamilton-and-americas-first-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and America&#8217;s First Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Atlas Obscura Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/podcast-manhattan-well?variation=A&amp;utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Places%20Newsletter%207%2F4&amp;_kx=er47F5658JoqpIOWduogrvq3r4G47uadCSAIr62Q_PE.UUnqkC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Manhattan Well: How Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton United to Solve a Murder Mystery. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography:<\/p>\n<p>Estelle Fox Kleiger,\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"8omypu-34ttwi-swbm0w-s2mlfy\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\">The Trial of Levi Weeks: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the First Recorded Murder Trial in US History (forthcoming, Chicago Review Press, 2025).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Willig, The Girl From Greenwich Street: A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America&#8217;s First Murder Trial (William Morrow, 2025).<\/p>\n<p>More about Levi Weeks here.<\/p>\n<p>Footnoting History: The Weeks Murder Trial<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ep 280 The Weeks Murder Trial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3de_ZtGD5E?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.nycourts.gov\/case\/people-v-weeks\/\">Historical Society of the New York Courts. People v. Levi Weeks, 1800.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-history","category-trials"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1Ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}