My guest is Dr. Emilie La Beau Lucchesi, author of “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago”. She discusses the case of Sabella Nitti, a poor Italian immigrant woman accused by police of murdering her husband with help from her farmhand lover in 1923. Dr. Lucchesi’s investigation offers new evidence that she helps further exonerate Nitti, who is probably most well known in modern day culture as one of the characters in the Chicago musical and film.
The author’s website: http://www.emilie-lucchesi.com/
