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A Textbook Case of Murder

· 15 min · Episode 20

Episode A Textbook Case of Murder

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When penmanship instructor Asa Wheeler fell on hard times, he decided to rent out space to an aspiring textbook author with a very famous brother. But if Wheeler felt that the Colt name-- a name synonymous with firearms since the 1850s-- couldn't possibly hurt his business, he would be mistaken.

What transpired next became one of the most discussed true crime cases of Old New York-- a case which famously spawned a conspiracy theory involving a faked death, a doppelganger corpse, and powerful family connections.

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