Auburn is an Antebellum mansion in Duncan Park in Natchez, Mississippi, it was designed and constructed by which person, an accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the United States for which there is a recorded transcript?
Levi Weeks Levi Weeks (1776–1819) was the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the United States for which there is a recorded transcript. At the time of the murder, Weeks was a young carpenter in New York City. He was the brother of Ezra Weeks, one of New York's most successful builders of the time.
Edward Cowart Edward D. Cowart (February 17, 1925 – August 3, 1987) was an American Judge (Dade County Circuit Court Judge). He is best known as presiding judge at the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy in 1979 (considered sometimes as the first "official" serial killer trial) , where he imposed a death sentence. Cowart is remembered for his glowing tribute to Bundy at his sentencing: