Evelyn Nesbit, the Benevolent Vampire, and the Crime of the Century
By Susan Amper
March 8, 2013She was only sixteen, only sixteen, when he deceived her so. She was too young to fall in love, and when he, Stanford White, famed Gilded Age architect drugged and raped Evelyn Nesbit, he was old enough to be her grandfather. The designer of the original Madison Square Garden and the Washington Memorial Arch in…