Harry Thaw: The Original Killer Playboy

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  • čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
  • “Trial of the century” - it’s a short and snappy phrase that grabs people’s attention. That’s probably why the press has relied on it whenever dealing with a high-profile court case to drum up as much interest as possible for a juicy story that dominates the headlines.
    Hey, even we here at Biographics haven’t shied away from using that old adage when describing some of the stories we’ve covered such as the trial of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle for the murder of Virginia Rappe or the trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard who stood accused of killing his wife.
    But today we’re going back even further, to one of the first-ever cases to earn the moniker of “trial of the century” and, to this day, still one of the most intriguing and shocking - the 1906 murder of renowned American architect Stanford White at the hands of mentally-unstable playboy Harry Thaw, ostensibly to protect the honor of his wife, famed supermodel Evelyn Nesbit.
    So what made this case so compelling? One contemporary reporter listed all the qualities of this murder scandal that gripped the nation:
    "You see, it had in it wealth, degeneracy, rich old wasters, delectable young chorus girls and adolescent artists' models; the behind-the-scenes of Theatredom and the Underworld, and the Great White Way. . . the abnormal pastimes and weird orgies of overly aesthetic artists and jaded debauchees…"
    This is the story of a love triangle that ended in murder and became front-page news all over the country as America waited to find out with bated breath what fate would befall Harry Thaw, the killer playboy.
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Komentáře • 124

  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  Před 5 měsíci +10

    Karl's Socials:
    Fact Fiend: www.youtube.com/@FactFiend
    Wiki Weekends: www.youtube.com/@wikiweekends
    Untitled Side Channel: www.youtube.com/@untitledsidechannel
    Twitter: twitter.com/KarlSmallwood

    • @cauldronmoon
      @cauldronmoon Před 5 měsíci

      Greetings Carl. 🙂
      Are you Simon whistler's understudy? Or what is happening with Simon concerning these CZcams channels? Just curious 🙂

  • @TRDPaul
    @TRDPaul Před 5 měsíci +31

    "Don't you get it? You see the hat? I am Mrs. Nesbitt!" - Buzz Lightyear

    • @charlesplante
      @charlesplante Před 5 měsíci +6

      So glad I'm not the only one

    • @victoriamero3987
      @victoriamero3987 Před 5 měsíci +5

      “Snap out of it, Buzz!”-Woody

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci +2

      Yeah, it's impossible to hear the name Nesbitt and not think of that bit from "Toy Story"!

    • @metamaxis
      @metamaxis Před 5 měsíci +3

      I actually heard Tim Allen's voice in my head seeing this.

    • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
      @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@metamaxisSo did I!

  • @tonysolino3131
    @tonysolino3131 Před 2 měsíci

    Outstanding video. I love your presentation style and the flow of the videos. I especially like your comments and views throughout.

  • @trumpetmom8924
    @trumpetmom8924 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Came to the comments just to look for the “Where’s Simon” comments. Wasn’t disappointed. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Nice job as always, Karl. Keep up the fine work.

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the video

  • @brandonprimeau2267
    @brandonprimeau2267 Před 5 měsíci +5

    You should cover rotha Lintorn-Orman.

  • @commasplyce
    @commasplyce Před 5 měsíci +1

    I did a presentation on this Trial of the Century in grad school! Stanford White basically was living as the early 20th century version of Christian Gray of "50 Shades of Gray," and Evelyn's "appendicitis" was very likely a euphamism - lots of girls who found themselves "in the family way" without a wedding ring at that time wound up with bouts of "appendicitis."

  • @stacyrussell460
    @stacyrussell460 Před 5 měsíci +47

    Honestly, I'm looking forward to Karl's videos on Biographics, Geographics & TopTenz. He's been doing a solid job. And it's very nice of him to give Simon props for being the previous host.

    • @jeremylugo5206
      @jeremylugo5206 Před 5 měsíci +5

      he definitely has been doing a solid job as host, i’ve grown fond of him 😄

    • @michellecrocker2485
      @michellecrocker2485 Před 5 měsíci +2

      What happened with Simon?

    • @michellecrocker2485
      @michellecrocker2485 Před 5 měsíci

      @@jeremylugo5206he’s doing a fantastic job

    • @stacyrussell460
      @stacyrussell460 Před 5 měsíci +7

      @@michellecrocker2485 Simon & the producers of the Biographics, Geographics & TopTenz channels have agreed to part ways. Simon still has a bunch of other channels.

    • @garradmill5946
      @garradmill5946 Před 5 měsíci +3

      I was very apprehensive at first but I'm enjoying his work

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 5 měsíci +9

    2:05 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    5:30 - Chapter 2 - Evelyn & stanny
    10:20 - Chapter 3 - Evelun & harry
    15:30 - Chapter 4 - Trial of the century
    21:05 - Conclusion

  • @emilygibbons9475
    @emilygibbons9475 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Mans is out here looking like Gus Fring in the thumbnail lol

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Před 5 měsíci +13

    You're doing a great job karl! Keep going! Suggestion: Abraham Lincoln

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  Před 5 měsíci +10

      I know it's been pitched. But I have no idea which writer will handle it.

    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@Biographics can't wait For it

    • @nvm9040
      @nvm9040 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I am surprised you haven’t done a Lincoln one yet

  • @ladylacrimal8447
    @ladylacrimal8447 Před 5 měsíci +7

    This poor girl pinned between 2 sociopaths!

    • @t.j.payeur5331
      @t.j.payeur5331 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Hah! She played them both. She made her own decisions. She could of had any man that she wanted, but it was, as usual, all about the money...

    • @ladylacrimal8447
      @ladylacrimal8447 Před 5 měsíci

      @t.j.payeur5331 She was r@ped at the age of 16 by a much older Sanford White, impregnated and underwent an abortion before 20, then married a Edwardian Cokehead. Who called the shots my friend?

    • @TurquoiseInk
      @TurquoiseInk Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@t.j.payeur5331 she manipulated them both? She was 15. Stop excusing molesters.

  • @JotBeAusD
    @JotBeAusD Před 5 měsíci +2

    Burg Katzenstein (Castle) is in southern Germany, wich never was part of austrian-hungry

  • @enriquehartmann8642
    @enriquehartmann8642 Před 5 měsíci +10

    I enjoy your delivery of the subject matter. Your asides are insightful and fun.
    Your accent, which is not your fault and probably way more me than you, takes a while to get used to.
    All in all, you're doing a good job.
    Who does your tattoos ?

  • @kathrynkramer8345
    @kathrynkramer8345 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Being an American and a bit hard of hearing, I humbly ask Karl to speak a bit slower to help me understood what he is saying with his beautiful accent

  • @HealingBlight
    @HealingBlight Před 5 měsíci +1

    20:15 Karl's P on that Gump goes HARD.

  • @jaymaxwell8645
    @jaymaxwell8645 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Loved you from fact fiend back in the day.

  • @tomo.3678
    @tomo.3678 Před 5 měsíci +11

    Hey, Karl. Yet another great vid. Could you possibly cover Irish revolutionary Michael Collins? 😀👍🏻☘️🍀☘️🍀

  • @chris55529
    @chris55529 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Evelyn was not a "supermodel". That term has been over-used for decades. It's been years since I've heard the term "model". These days, every ordinary model is a "supermodel". Florence was neither. She was pretty. That's it.

  • @metamaxis
    @metamaxis Před 5 měsíci +5

    It's interesting seeing Karl doing these.
    would like to as some point see you guys do one on Volodymyr Zelensky, how a guy went from a TV comedian to the face of the fight against Russian invasion.

  • @brittanyramirez2642
    @brittanyramirez2642 Před 5 měsíci +2

    The book the girl in the velvet swing is so good.

  • @fuzzyparker7045
    @fuzzyparker7045 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Love your style🥰

  • @Hamzakhan-dt3gv
    @Hamzakhan-dt3gv Před 5 měsíci

    Interesting biography

  • @georgewood9385
    @georgewood9385 Před 5 měsíci +2

    wow. keeps be killing it. Simons hair has regrown 😂

  • @danasmith5577
    @danasmith5577 Před 5 měsíci +2

    “Ew”, lol

  • @PSPoolside
    @PSPoolside Před 5 měsíci

    I own a portrait of Evelyn Nesbitt in ink and charcoal by Charles Dana Gibson. I purchased it at auction as part of a junk lot, the contents of an old desk. I think I paid $5. I often wonder what the back story was of the drawing.

  • @xSavedSoulx
    @xSavedSoulx Před 5 měsíci

    Cheers

  • @johnstyron6543
    @johnstyron6543 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Wonderful job!

  • @tashahansenpersonalaccount9633
    @tashahansenpersonalaccount9633 Před 5 měsíci +3

    If anyone else has to cover this Chanel it be carl

  • @johnransom1146
    @johnransom1146 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Who noticed the woman’s hat that was a white bird? Beak over her face

  • @mirz2351
    @mirz2351 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Where’s Simon!? I don’t like change!! Jk cool that there’s another presenter.

    • @ladylacrimal8447
      @ladylacrimal8447 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Simon is on maternity leave lol

    • @mirz2351
      @mirz2351 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@ladylacrimal8447oh man, massive congrats and love to him. And thank you for letting me know.

  • @leighpowell1062
    @leighpowell1062 Před 5 měsíci

    I once had a friend in school called glascock

  • @lilandry
    @lilandry Před 5 měsíci +1

    4:29 who said this is about chickens or any other birds?

  • @idontknow6354
    @idontknow6354 Před 5 měsíci

    What’s Simon’s new channel?

  • @AvidCat5000
    @AvidCat5000 Před 5 měsíci +6

    You're doing great. ✌️

  • @ianmacdiarmid1249
    @ianmacdiarmid1249 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Doing a fine job, Karl. Keep it up. Suggestion: Chester Nimitz

    • @ThatGUY666666
      @ThatGUY666666 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Pretty sure they already did him

    • @ianmacdiarmid1249
      @ianmacdiarmid1249 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@ThatGUY666666 might have. Haven't been through their whole catalog yet.

  • @cdhaddock
    @cdhaddock Před 5 měsíci +3

    good job

  • @Thenarratorofsecrets
    @Thenarratorofsecrets Před 5 měsíci

    holy shit love what Twain said. that's a fucking roasting.

  • @patriciaposthumus6684
    @patriciaposthumus6684 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I'm only at 12:03 in the video, but i have to know; did thid Evelyn marry John Barrimore? John is Drew Barrimores grandfather and this Evelyn sure does look a lot like Drew.

  • @TrickPink
    @TrickPink Před 5 měsíci +1

    Imagine my surprise to be scrolling my subs and see Karl on the wrong channel lmfao.

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 Před 5 měsíci

    Is it OG for is it the Windward baby?

  • @brandyrose9997
    @brandyrose9997 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Karl, I really like you now. Your smile is adorable and you're easy to listen to. ❤

  • @washubrain
    @washubrain Před 5 měsíci +6

    You've done it in style Karl! Keep up the good work, we enjoy it 😃

  • @nvm9040
    @nvm9040 Před 5 měsíci +2

    I got educated today so I know something about Harry Thaw thx Karl 🙃

  • @Demonslayre
    @Demonslayre Před 5 měsíci

    Karl, you're doing fine. I was thrown off because you're an informal host and i was expecting that same energy. Im used to your "professional energy" now. We good.

  • @YeeSoest
    @YeeSoest Před 5 měsíci +1

    😂 Dementia Americana
    Is there an obvious way for a madman to appear decidedly american? SURE....but this almost sounds cartoonishly italian😅

  • @tonysolino3131
    @tonysolino3131 Před 5 měsíci +7

    Well done Karl. Your style is great.

  • @HaydenBarber-wm2pf
    @HaydenBarber-wm2pf Před 5 měsíci +5

    Hah, Smallwood

  • @murrayscott9546
    @murrayscott9546 Před 5 měsíci

    Simon ? Whodafukiz Simon ? You're Aces !

  • @laneyashtonc
    @laneyashtonc Před 5 měsíci +1

    I love that you made a video about this because I genuinely felt I was the only one who knew about Evelyn’s case!!

  • @gethinwj
    @gethinwj Před 5 měsíci +10

    Great job Karl! Love to see you here, would love to see more of your off script comments/tangents if you feel that's your style.

  • @tomweetikveel102
    @tomweetikveel102 Před 5 měsíci +7

    I actually really like your style mister Smallwood. As good as Simon

  • @malakaibach
    @malakaibach Před 5 měsíci +4

    Cool guy this playboy I mean he was rich and did whatever he wanted a life well spent nice

  • @lairdsteele2817
    @lairdsteele2817 Před 5 měsíci +7

    Interim host? Will Simon be back, this lad just doesn’t come across the same.

    • @nvm9040
      @nvm9040 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Simon has other channels and he will not return to this one

  • @bengreen2380
    @bengreen2380 Před 5 měsíci

    Tanked since lord whistler stopped hosting…

  • @Verdant00_
    @Verdant00_ Před 5 měsíci

    I swore I’d seen Harry Thaw somewhere before but I couldn’t remember where until I did….look up “miss miller from I love Lucy”
    😂

  • @claudias1987
    @claudias1987 Před 5 měsíci

    Steady on Karl! You're doing a great job!

  • @paulherman5822
    @paulherman5822 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Could you do one of Jake "McNasty" McNiece? American antihero from WWII.

  • @AnonymousAccount514
    @AnonymousAccount514 Před měsícem

    just change your name to karl woods

  • @Pastel_of_Nate
    @Pastel_of_Nate Před 5 měsíci +2

    Great video Sir, please do a video about António de Oliveira Salazar.

  • @LaraRenee42
    @LaraRenee42 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I was all ready to back you until you said you hoped you were doing good, not that you hoped you were doing well. 🤣
    Na, really it's time they recognize that you're 💯 a full host, and a good one too!

  • @popitforpoppa1682
    @popitforpoppa1682 Před 5 měsíci

    evelyn nesbitt was mid

  • @terrafirma5327
    @terrafirma5327 Před 5 měsíci +12

    People seems to have forgotten what constructive criticism is, this is just criticism in the comments. They don't specify any issues that can be worked on, or present anything actionable. I am all for negative feedback if it has a purpose other than to hurt someone's feelings with no positive outcomes. While I think Karl is doing a good job and have said such, I am sure he has room to grow. Give him something he can act on.

    • @christinebenson518
      @christinebenson518 Před 5 měsíci +4

      Thank you!
      I'm so tired of "bring back Simon".
      Simon's got at least 8 channels of his own. If that's not enough for you, get help.

  • @TurquoiseInk
    @TurquoiseInk Před 5 měsíci +3

    I alreadyl liked Karl's video. But honestly, listening to him being disgusted at the mistreatment of the teenager Evelyn Nesbit by the men who claimed to "love" her cemented my loyalty. I hope she had a good life after these horrible men exited her life. As Simon said The Past Is The Worst.
    Could we get a video on Evelyn Nesbitt? Sarah Bernhardt?

  • @aimee-raykindred3205
    @aimee-raykindred3205 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I love Karl’s hosting style. It’s informative, like Biographics always has been, but it has those extra sprinklings of humour and references to nerd culture that I understand 😂
    In terms of other people I’d like to see covered here, I’d love to see more true crime ones. BTK, Gary Ridgeway, Anatoli Onoprienko, etc.

  • @sbcee2220
    @sbcee2220 Před 5 měsíci

    Karl, how much guff have you taken in your life for your last name? Serious PTSD, mate.
    I mean your over 6', if I heard that right in one of these videos, so ... yeah.
    Be a lot different if that shit was my last name.

  • @Malaika924
    @Malaika924 Před 5 měsíci

    "It's the crime of the century! Crime of the century!
    Giving the world a thrill
    Harry's in trouble, and Stanny's in heaven
    And Evelyn is in vaudeville!" 😁 iykyk

  • @kddicks5115
    @kddicks5115 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Karl, you are doing an amazing job!! No, you’re not Simon…and I LOVE IT!!😊😊 Thank you for that lovely reminder to not be a DICK to women!!🥰🥰😁😁😁✌️👏👏

  • @grandthanatos
    @grandthanatos Před 5 měsíci

    Evelyn Nesbit was a character in the novel Ragtime and its adaptations.

  • @Leeroy2586
    @Leeroy2586 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Where TF is Simon?

  • @Shadowsword12
    @Shadowsword12 Před 5 měsíci +2

    That guy was a prick, So sad what happened to Evelyn (a full biographics would be pretty cool of her). Also I think you're bringing a very unique but equally good setting and character to all three channels. Heck, I even started to watch fact fiend which is like a mini podcast, Karl is a great replacement for Simon.

  • @malakaibach
    @malakaibach Před 5 měsíci +2

    I really don't like change it's just kinda feels off I got used to simon

  • @Alatoic01
    @Alatoic01 Před 5 měsíci +1

    interesting story, only complain is that the presenter remind us to many times of points he already made and also put to much personal bias in the presentation, should be more impartial and let the story be told. We can make our own conclusions of what is bad.

  • @christinebenson518
    @christinebenson518 Před 5 měsíci

    I watched a video on another channel showing White's mansion. In the video, the host mentioned his issues but didn't get into details. He asked us to comment if we believed the claims.
    I said not only do a believe them, since multiple girls alleged it happened to them, but I think his friends knew and didn't care. It's sickening.
    It's one thing to ignore a friend cheating on their partner, but one who's abusing teen girls? Just no.

  • @rogerpenske2411
    @rogerpenske2411 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Wow! That’s a good thing that Hillary Clinton wasn’t around back then

  • @waynerooney9661
    @waynerooney9661 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I'd love to see a biographics episode about Ernst Junger, a German soldier during WW1, who went on the hate the nazis but served as an intelligence officer during WW2 and was rumored to be involved in the valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler. He later wrote the incredible book, Storm of Steel about his time in the trenches of WW1.

  • @butterball33
    @butterball33 Před 5 měsíci

    If he was violent and prone to outbursts, he probably needed some anti-psychotics.

  • @smlince
    @smlince Před 5 měsíci

    Did this guy just straight up buy the channel rights for all time? There are a ton of channels and non youtube information content the only differential value was Simon even just doing a crappy AI version of Simon is better than killing channel this way for good

    • @christinebenson518
      @christinebenson518 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Simon never owned the channel. Karl doesn't either.
      The original owner died. His daughter took it over, and things got difficult between her and Simon.
      For the record, Simon has at least 8 channels of his own, and he still hosts: Today I Found Out.
      If that's not enough Simon, you need therapy... now.

  • @darthnowlan
    @darthnowlan Před 5 měsíci

    Bring back Simon.

  • @jamesmcpherson1590
    @jamesmcpherson1590 Před 5 měsíci

    Is there something you are trying to project or achieve by drinking beverages in the middle of narrating a video, or is it just laziness? If you think it adds anything of worth to the video, you are wrong; it doesn't. Is it really that difficult to edit it out, or do you just have no standards of professionalism? The jury is in for me. I'm done with Kyle Smallwood. Unsubscribed.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  Před 5 měsíci

      What a strange hill to die on.

    • @jamesmcpherson1590
      @jamesmcpherson1590 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Biographics To the contrary, I'm not dead; just moving on to a hill that is less tiresome.

  • @rogerroger9960
    @rogerroger9960 Před 5 měsíci

    So, like, is Simon coming back? :/

  • @eternallife9786
    @eternallife9786 Před 5 měsíci +1

    In this era most people didn't have a livable wage and they seriously need the fire this new host and bring back simon what a total joke you don't need dispense opinions when you're doing a biography that's called an opinion piece not a biography

    • @reneedailey1696
      @reneedailey1696 Před 5 měsíci +5

      Simon offered his opinions all the time.
      What a weirdly unnecessary comment.

    • @christinebenson518
      @christinebenson518 Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@reneedailey1696Exactly. Granted slightly more toned down then on his own channels, but he still said things.

    • @eternallife9786
      @eternallife9786 Před 5 měsíci

      The point yeah he occasionally added little tidbits to the story so you can understand it a little bit better this guy is straight up taking pauses you his thoughts which is completely unnecessary plus way to pick somebody with an almost unintelligible British accent

  • @SonjaHamburg
    @SonjaHamburg Před 5 měsíci +2

    US Americans: "a 16yo is a child that cant consent to an affair!"
    (also US Americans: "we trial 8yos as adults because age is no excuse to not know what you are doing!!! We even give the death penalty to kids!") ... I will never understand this logic😅

    • @faithlessberserker5921
      @faithlessberserker5921 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Both of those things depend on the state

    • @eternallife9786
      @eternallife9786 Před 5 měsíci +3

      ​@@faithlessberserker5921you can tell the OP isn't the brightest

    • @phearz0r
      @phearz0r Před 5 měsíci +1

      Feel free to explain the logic that dictated chemical castration of gay people in the UK?

  • @SonjaHamburg
    @SonjaHamburg Před 5 měsíci

    You shoulndt judge people of the past based on the current laws of your country.

  • @6aliph77
    @6aliph77 Před 5 měsíci

    Who the f*-+ are you???? and weres the bald dude????