After more than a decade of power and graft, New York's Tammany Hall "Boss" William Tweed was finally sent to jail for embezzlement. On December 4, 1875, the 280 pound Boss managed a jailbreak.
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.