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Speaker 1: You're number one.

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Speaker 2: How do you find a defendant? A brand new historical

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Speaker 2: true crime podcast. Her name was Julie Elma that everyone

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Speaker 2: called her Alma. Elma Sands was twenty two when she

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Speaker 2: was murdered in New York City.

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Speaker 1: It's a shame.

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Speaker 2: Your entire case rests on a twenty seven year.

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Speaker 1: Old woman called It's a shame your case rests on

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Speaker 1: proximity to money and power Hamilton.

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Speaker 2: Her body was found discarded in the Manhattan Well on

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Speaker 2: the second of January eighteen hundred for.

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Speaker 1: The brutal beating and felonious murder of Julie Helma Sands.

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Speaker 1: The prisoner, Levi Waits fleets not guilty.

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Speaker 2: Even with defense lawyers Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on

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Speaker 2: the case. This is probably the most famous trial you've

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Speaker 2: never heard of. I'm Alison Flohm, and this is erased

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Speaker 2: the murder of Elma Sans. Everybody liked her.

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Speaker 1: She was a sweet, happy, virtuous girl until she met

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Speaker 1: that man and right there.

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Speaker 2: Filling in the gaps from the court records, I've reconstructed

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Speaker 2: the story with actors. I love to share it with you.

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Speaker 1: Can we make this simpler? I don't need anything simplified,

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Speaker 1: mister Hamilton, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can figure out why. Two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: three years later, we have a justice system built on

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Speaker 2: Elma's story, but nobody knows her name. Gentlemen of the jury,

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Speaker 2: the real attorneys will take it from here. Is it possible?

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Speaker 2: So we're standing by for your answer when you lay

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Speaker 2: suffering a sudden, violent, brutal death. Starring and executive produced

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Speaker 2: by Alison Williams, I hope you'll think of me with

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Speaker 2: Tony Goldwyn as Alexander Hamilton. Don't be so sad, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't suit you, and Barry Sheck as Aaron Burr.

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Speaker 2: The law is whatever we say. It is written and

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Speaker 2: created by me, Alison Flap Elma was found dead in

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Speaker 2: the well. How did you know? From Lava for Good Podcasts,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your service, gentlemen. Erased the Murder of

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Speaker 2: Elma sans starting on October eighteenth on the iHeartRadio app,

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