Elena

Right.

It's not like they just don't like her.

Yeah, exactly.

Now, she couldn't hold a job for very long, so she sought out the only viable path for women in the late 19th century.

And in 1879, she married Charles Hopkins, a carpenter who was very much older than her.

She was 20 years old at the time.

There's not a lot that's known about the marriage or really Hopkins himself because again this is a long time ago but it is believed from some digging that he was a deserter from the British army who was living under the name Keatspool Brown when he and Lizzie married.

All righty.

Although he did officially make his living as a carpenter, Kevin Owens, who we will link in the show notes, he said he also had a history of shady and criminal behavior.

And in one instance, he romanced a local married woman and convinced her to steal money from her employer for him.

Damn.

He ended up receiving $200 from the women in the 1800s.

That's a lot of money.

And then just skipped out on the relationship.

Oh, so he was only romancing her for himself?

Oh, yeah.

For his own shit?

So after her arrest and incarceration later, Lizzie explained that Hopkins, quote, always had some woman coming about and visiting with whom he had once been acquainted.

Oh, that's shitty.

Hopkins was making it seem like he was just manipulating these women for money, but he was also trying to make Lizzie feel like it wasn't a mistress situation.