In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess. But it wasn't her crime which shocked the nation, it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass for a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fianc?e, Freda Ward. When their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden to ever speak again. Freda adjusted to this with an ease that stunned the heartbroken Alice. Alice's subsequent letters went unanswered and on January 25, 1892, Alice publicly slashed Freda's throat. Alice spent months in jail and a jury eventually declared her insane and she was placed in an asylum where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.
