# A Textbook Case of Murder

An episode of [15 Minutes of Infamy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1896791216), 27 Sep 2026, 15 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/112777230/podcast/play/126383435/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-27%2Feb62e8a4-429d-e9a6-0168-38f580db6869.mp3

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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