The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
By Patricia Cline Cohen (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett. … Continued