Fitzharris �04 Hosts New Series Investigating Famous, Mysterious Deaths
Oct. 30, 2020
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. � Medical historian, bestselling author, and now, television host Lindsey Fitzharris �04 re-examines some of history檚 most mysterious deaths in The Curious Life and Death Of�, a new .
The six-episode series will re-air in November on the Smithsonian Channel (). It is also available to watch via several streaming platforms, including .
淭he show is a bit of everything,� Fitzharris . 淚t檚 got the contemporary, it檚 got the historical, and it檚 definitely got the curious, mysterious factor.�
In collaboration with a variety of experts and eyewitnesses, Fitzharris uses science, tests and demonstrations to shed new light on famous deaths. The list of subjects includes 19th-century church school teacher and suspected axe murderer Lizzie Borden, Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, an unidentified child from the sinking of the Titanic, Hollywood starlet Brittany Murphy, magician Harry Houdini and drug lord Pablo Escobar.
淥ne of the things that we try to do,� Fitzharris told CBS Los Angeles, 渆specially me as a historian, is to talk about the side stories, the things that people don檛 really think about.� Through analyzing biographical details and other historical records, Fitzharris� approach gives viewers a more holistic understanding of famous events in history.
A Mount Prospect, Illinois native, Fitzharris holds a bachelor檚 degree in history from Illinois Wesleyan, and master檚 and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford, where she also studied as an undergraduate during her junior year through the 糖心动漫vlog Pembroke Program.
Fitzharris� debut book, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister檚 Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science in the United States and was shortlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom. Fitzharris is also the creator of the popular blog The Chirurgeon檚 Apprentice, as well as the host of the YouTube series Under the Knife.
By Rachel McCarthy �21 and Megan Baker �21