Elena

Days later, Lizzie was confronted by the authorities and admitted to stealing the money, saying she'd given it to another lawyer for safekeeping.

But it's not yours, babe.

No.

Parkinson called off the relationship immediately and told Lizzie he was going to see his family and they would be getting divorced as soon as he got back.

I'm like, does your marriage even count?

Well, before he could return, Lizzie packed up everything and sold the entire house and everything in it.

The 1800s go crazy.

Like furniture, clothes, dishes, fixtures, sold all of it.

She said, buy it as is.

Yeah, and then she left town.

What?

Yeah.

Since Parkinson was already married, though, and Lizzie married him, like you just asked, the marriage was never legal.

And so it was immediately dissolved, and they just never spoke again.

All righty.

Well, he made it out alive.

Like, damn.

So after her marriage to Parkinson fell apart in 1886, Lizzie returned to Greenwich and found work as a wash woman.

And then she found another man.

One day, not long after returning, she was visited by George Smith.