The crime
“Twenty-two-year-old Elma Sands is found murdered in a Manhattan well on January 2nd, 1800. Her lover, wealthy and well-connected Levi Weeks, is accused of the barbaric offense. Weeks brings in the nation's best legal defense team – none other than Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr – to clear his name while a pandemic-stricken New York City buzzes with scandal.”

The story
Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands, the latest in the Lava For Good family of podcasts, is an all-star re-imagining of the young country’s first Trial Of The Century. The six-parter is created and narrated by Allison Flom — daughter of LFG founder Jason, who also voice-acts the presiding judge in Erased’s audio re-enactments — after her work as an NYC tour guide introduced her to the aforementioned well, still squatting grimly in the corner of a SoHo retail location. Startled by the fact that a piece of history is just…there, next to piles of overpriced denim, Flom decided to get after the story —