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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice -- Alex Hortis, Hardcover Children's 4-8 - Sociology and stylistic contextBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony before even Lizzie Borden there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty four year old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned