America was a dynamic place in the middle-nineteenth century, where even a descendent of an indentured worker, born into poverty, might become one of the richest men in America. And that man might then inspire the world, by going on vacation.
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.