Episode 2: Insane Lila Zane
On September 21, 1907, 19 year old Lila Zane orchestrated the murder of 16 year old Charles Bennett on Wheeling Island in West Virginia. She tried to get her underage husband sent to get gallows for it . Her lawyers chose an insanity defense, unaware that she actually was insane. Just not in a way that could be understood in the past.
