She Made Murder the Price of Marriage | The Kentucky Tragedy of 1825
At 2 a.m. a knock came at the door of Kentucky’s most powerful politician. Seconds later he was dying on the floor with a dagger in his chest—and the killer claimed he did it for love.
This is the true story of the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy: a young lawyer, a woman seventeen years older, a shattered reputation, and a midnight assassination that became one of early America’s most sensational crimes. A murder so dramatic it inspired Edgar Allan Poe… and ended with a suicide pact in a jail cell.
Host Alexander Lawson unravels the obsession, the politics, the race rumors, and the confession that…
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