References in Popular Culture
Jewett is a character in the novel Burr by Gore Vidal—being the love interest of the narrator. Although her murder is peripheral to the story, it is foreshadowed throughout by the title character's having got the apparent murderer of Elma Sands off, in an infamous trial at the turn of the century.
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