Crime
The Murder of Stanford White: Scandal, Sex, and a Crime That Shook Gilded Age New York
On the night of June 25, 1906, inside the glittering rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden, one of America’s most celebrated architects, Stanford White, was shot point-blank in front of hundreds of socialites, performers, and power brokers. His killer was Harry Kendall Thaw, a mentally unstable millionaire from