Killer Colt

Recounts an electrifying 19th-century New York trial that saw John Colt--the brother of Sam Colt, the inventor of the revolver--accused a grisly murder that left a putrefying corpse onboard a ship, a trial that failed to unearth an astounding secret that went undiscovered for years and was only known by the two brothers and an illiterate Scottish woman of ill repute.