The first murder victim was said to have been killed around 430,000 years ago in Spain; how they figured this out I don’t have a clue. When the body was found they performed forensics and saw that someone had hit him in the face twice with some type of shaped object. Needless to say, this is still a cold case.
The first murder trial in the U.S. took place in 1800 in New York. A prominent man (Levi Weeks), was said to have killed his girlfriend but the evidence was almost all circumstantial. Fortunately for Levi his family had money so they hired the dream team of attorneys back then (i.e. Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Livingston). The judge all but told the jury there wasn't a case before they went back to deliberate so around fifteen minutes later, they came back with a verdict of "Innocent."
The first murder trial in the U.S. took place in 1800 in New York. A prominent man (Levi Weeks), was said to have killed his girlfriend but the evidence was almost all circumstantial. Fortunately for Levi his family had money so they hired the dream team of attorneys back then (i.e. Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Livingston). The judge all but told the jury there wasn't a case before they went back to deliberate so around fifteen minutes later, they came back with a verdict of "Innocent."
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