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In the era of Storyville and Bellocq, one man heard the spirits calling.
Believing himself to be proficient with magnetic and hypnotic powers, Dr. Etienne Deschamps searched for the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. And he wanted a tender virgin to seek out it. Juliette Deitsh, poor, immigrant, and 12 years old, never stood a possibility. In 1889, she was once found dead from an overdose of chloroform in bed next to a distraught Deschamps. The deranged doctor’s heinous act made the legal authorities confront the query: Must the obviously insane Deschamps be executed for his crime? This incisive examination of the murder, trials, and conclusions invites readers to reconsider this famous case.