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True Crime Club: Dan Sickles & Temporary Insanity

 

Articles:
“Murder in Lafayette Square” by Heather Thomas
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/09/murder-in-lafayette-square/
 

“Cold-Blooded Murder in Lafayette Square: The Sickles Tragedy of 1859” by Ariel Veroske

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2013/06/24/cold-blooded-murder-lafayette-
square-sickles-tragedy-1859

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Court Case United States v. Sickles

 

Newspaper article
Men gathered around a casket with American flag draped over it

Books:
Trial of the Hon. David E. Sickles for shooting Philip Barton Key by by Felix G. Fontaine
via HathiTrust


Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America by Chris
DeRose


Wild beasts & idle humours: The insanity defense from antiquity to the present by
Daniel N. Robinson


Madness, murder and mayhem: Criminal insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain by
Kathryn Burtinshaw

 

Podcasts:
The History Guy | True Crime Trials: Daniel Sickles' Temporary Insanity and the
murder of Gulielma Sands

Crimes of the Centuries with Amber Hunt | Daniel Sickles: Temporary Insanity?

 

 

Citations:

Fac-simile of Mrs. Sickles's confession. , 1859. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/97502250/.

Sickles funeral, 1914. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.15790/

General Dan Sickles in wheelchair, 1912. Photograph. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/gen-dan-sickles-in-wheelchair

 


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