On a sweltering summer night in 1906, the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden became the stage for one of the most infamous murders in American history.
Architect Stanford White, a towering figure of Gilded Age New York, was gunned down in front of hundreds by millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw. The motive? A beautiful young model named Evelyn Nesbit, caught in a web of seduction, obsession, and revenge.
What followed was a media firestorm, a scandal that gripped the nation, and a courtroom spectacle dubbed the “Trial of the Century.” This wasn’t just a crime—it was a collision of wealth, power, vanity, and madness at the height of America's golden facade.
In this episode of Dave Does History, we unravel the twisted love triangle, the unstable mind of Harry Thaw, and the tragic fate of Evelyn Nesbit, whose beauty helped build an empire—and then watched it collapse in gunfire.
