The Unsolved Death of Elma Sands
Starring Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
On a crisp December evening in 1799, a young milliner (a maker of women’s hats) named Gulielma “Elma” Sands slipped out of her cousin’s boarding house on New York City’s Greenwich Street. She told her family she was on her way to secretly marry the handsome carpenter she had been seeing, Levi Weeks.
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