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Emma Cunningham
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- Emma Cunningham (1818–87), a mother of five, was accused of the gruesome murder of her lover, Harvey Burdell, a financially secure New York dentist. Burdell was found strangled and stabbed to death on January 31, 1857, in his four-story boarding house at 31 Bond Street, where Cunningham served as his landlady. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Cunningham, Emma]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Emma_Cunningham
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