The New York Times proclaimed, “America’s glorious fourth in this year of grace is more than likely to be written in the future histories of the entire world as one of the most portentous days that has ever dawned.”
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.