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The news was printed. The case was closed. Everyone involved is long gone. Each season, Durgee Junior High journalism students return to the archives to investigate a local story that once made the papers, exploring the world in which it happened. Season 1: Murder on Marble Street A love affair, a public shooting, and a trial that drew attention far beyond Baldwinsville. In 1900, Lulu Ostrander was shot and killed by Harriet Schmoll, the wife of her lover. What followed was a sensational murder trial, an insanity defense, and extensive newspaper coverage
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Episode 11 of 11: After the trial, residents of Marble Street began reporting a woman in white who called out for her daughter. The final episode covers the ghost of Lulu Ostrander, and why Central New York was the one p
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Episode 10 of 11: Harriet Schmoll admitted to the shooting, and twelve men spent six hours deciding what to do about it. We reveal the verdict and discuss what usually happened to women on trial for violent crimes in 190
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Episode 9 of 11: The safest move was silence. Harriet Schmoll chose the stand. We'll cover the testimony that packed the courthouse and the risk it carried. It Made the Papers is researched, written, and produced by 8th-
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Episode 8 of 11: Ten years before her murder, Lulu Ostrander's husband walked out and left her with two children and a label: grass widow. We look at what 1900 did to a woman raising a family without a ring on her finger
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Episode 7 of 11: Harriet Schmoll was put out of her father's house and married at 14, to a man who turned out to already have a wife. We trace a life that went wrong early, and ask why divorce was never really on the tab
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Episode 6 of 11: Harriet Schmoll never denied the shooting, so her lawyers tried something else: doctors who testified that menopause had made her temporarily insane. We examine the medical beliefs of 1900 and the defens
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Episode 5 of 11: In 1900, New York considered women too delicate to hear courtroom testimony, but not too delicate to sit at the defense table facing a death sentence. We look at the twelve men who held Harriet Schmoll's
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Episode 4 of 11: Spectators brought their lunches to Harriet Schmoll's trial so they wouldn't lose their seats, and most of them were women. We look at how the newspapers turned a village murder into the biggest show in
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Episode 3 of 11:The electric chair was invented in Auburn, NY, practically next door to Baldwinsville, and its first execution went so badly that witnesses called it torture. We’ll explore what it meant for Harriet Schmo
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Episode 2 of 11: Where did Harriet Schmoll get the revolver? Even in 1900, nobody could agree. We dig into the lives of both women and the gun laws that made the question almost beside the point. It Made the Papers is re
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Episode 1 of 11: On June 9, 1900, Harriet Schmoll crossed Marble Street with a .38 revolver hidden in a bundle of newspapers. Lulu Ostrander was dead within hours, and the papers couldn't stop writing about it. It Made t
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