On December 13, 1916 one of the deadliest avalanche in history occurred, and barely made the newspapers. The White Friday avalanches were a little remembered event of the little remembered, but uniquely horrible, Italian front in the Great War.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.