8. Lulu Lived Alone, You Know

Episode 8 of 11: Ten years before her murder, Lulu Ostrander's husband walked out and left her with two children and a label: grass widow. We look at what 1900 did to a woman raising a family without a ring on her finger.  It Made the Papers is researched, written, and produced by 8th-grade journalism students at Durgee Junior High School in Baldwinsville, NY, with support from their ELA teacher and school librarian. Season one, Murder on Marble Street, follows a 1900 murder in the students' own village and the questions it raises about life at the turn of the century. The series was inspired by Johnathan Croyle's November 2025 article on the case for Syracuse.com:⁠ https://www.syracuse.com/living/2025/11/did-jealousy-or-temporary-insanity-cause-a-baldwinsville-woman-to-shoot-her-neighbor-in-1900.html⁠ Image ResourcesEpisode cover art of a woman washing clothes, courtesy of the West Hempstead Historical Society