Charity's Crime

01/02/25 • 44 min

In 1854, a gruesome murder rocked the Oregon Territory. Charity Lamb stood accused of killing her husband, Nathaniel, with an axe. Newspapers called Charity a monster and speculated on her marriage. But there was more to the story. Would Nathaniel's history of physically abusing Charity convince jurors that she had acted in self-defense?

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You are listening to History on Trial, a production of iHeart Podcasts. Listener discretion advised. As he walked home on May thirteenth, eighteen fifty four, Nathaniel Lamb was presented with a vision of loveliness all around him. Spring was unfurling, Dormant plants poked their heads from the soil to greet the sun covering the world in green. Oregon winters can be dreary, but all those gray, rainy days pay off. Thirty four year old Nathaniel wa