A former artist’s model turned “Florodora Girl,” Evelyn Nesbit married Philadelphia society scion Harry K. Thaw in 1906. A few months later, after attending a musical at Madison Square Garden’s rooftop theatre, Thaw shot and killed Nesbit’s former lover, architect Stanford White.
One of our readers, Phil Martin of Long Beach, California, was watching American Experience on PBS, which was airing Evelyn Nesbit’s story. “For some reason, she looked familiar to me,” he says, “an

August 2005