Red Lilac and the White Witch of Buffalo




True Crime Historian show

Summary: YESTERDAY'S NEWS -- tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism. -- In 1930, the famed diorama artist Henri Marchand created a set of spectacular dioramas for a Buffalo New York Museum, had an affair with one of his models, Lila Jameson, called Red Lilac by her Cayuga tribe. She so fell in love with him, that he tricked a superstitious elderly woman into committing a horrible crime so she and her artist could be together. --- Black Bird Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ _ Theme music by Dave Sams - www.truecrimehistorian.com/1930marchand