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The salacious murder of this New York City prostitute changed the American When Helen Jewett was found dead from hatchet wounds to the head inside the brothel where she worked in 1836, the newspapers went wild with her story and helped create sensational journalism as we know it today.⠀ ⠀ Discover bizarre details behind the 1836 murder that sparked the birth of American tabloids by clicking the link in our bio.⠀ When New York courtesan Helen Jewett was murdered in cold blood almost 200 years ago, a flurry of sensationalized news coverage descended upon her death. The scandal sparked an arms race among New York’s penny papers — the New York Herald, the Sun, the Courier and Enquirer just to name a few — to publish the latest and most scintillating details about the case. Jewett’s case garnered such notoriety for a few reasons, not the least of which being that the victim was a high-profile New Yorker with a titillating career and a young, wealthy, and potentially jealous client of hers.