1. "What TV Show?"
Posted by Edisto on Oct-12th-02 at 1:38 PM

A couple of nights ago, I was flipping around from one channel to another, trying to find out which area the sniper was using as a shooting gallery that day, and I came across a trailer for a TV show that was clearly a fictionalized account of the Fahey murder in Delaware.  They showed the big ice chest being towed in and mentioned that the perp was a lawyer.  However, I missed the name of the series and the date of the show.  Did anybody see this?  It might well be over by now, but I couldn't find a description of it in my TV schedule for any of the following nights.  It was on a regular broadcast channel.  I'm still trying to find out more about it.

I think I saw them shooting INTO the ice chest.
I thought THAT seemed really familiar as a true crime.

I would think it was Homicide   or
Law & Order  or some show like that.  (Those of you who watch shows like this:  Which is the one that claims "Ripped from the headlines?")
Could it have been advertising a mini-series?

I"M sorry I'm not much help, but I did see what you did, but am not familiar with those shows.

That's my problem too, Kat.  I'm not all that familiar with those shows.  At least I know I'm not crazy.  Or, alternately, maybe both of us are crazy???

I would certainly hope so!

BTW:  When I Read that true crime book about this case, I know that they shot into the ice chest because it wouldn't sink.

I thought that was what I saw in the promo, but I also DO remember seeing a hook hauling the bobbing chest in when found in the ocean.

My favotite true-crime stories (modern) are when the husband kills the wife and then tries to get away with it.  (Like "Woodchipper".)  My gosh what they GO through!

If I may ask, what was your original interest in This murder--had you read the book?

Hmmm.  I think I first saw something about it on TV and then read both books - the one by Ann Rule and another one.  (I don't know if there are any others, but I've read those two.)  Of course, Delaware isn't all that far away from where I live, so that makes it kind of a local-interest story. I don't know why, but I don't find that case as interesting as some I've read about, but I would watch another TV show about it -- even a fictionalized one.  So you like to read about husbands who kill their wives?  I don't know if I have any special interest in those.  What is it that makes a case interesting?  I thought the O. J. Simpson case was fascinating, even though I was (and am) sure he did it, so it held no mystery for me.  There was just a fascinating cast of characters.  I was glued to Court TV every day it was on. I'm not a sports fan in particular, so O. J. Simpson wasn't someone I was interested in before the murders.

You see?!
Husbands Who Kill Their Wives...
(And What They Go Through...)

NB: OJ Simpson did NOT kill Nicole and Ron. The limo driver picked him up at 11PM and took him to the airport. He could NOT have been there after 11:30PM. The red liquid blood says they were murdered after 11:30. Of course, I'm not an ME.

The ME who did the autopsy said "the forensic evidence says the murders occurred after 11PM". You can look up this censored evidence in the news from July 1994 preliminary hearing.

(Message last edited Oct-16th-02  2:24 PM.)

Lizzie on This Is Your Life

Emcee: Now see if you can tell us who'se voice this is Lizzie

Voice Offstage: NO!NO! NO! Put the hatchet DOWN!

Lizzie (laughing): Oh thats gotta be Daddy!

I just busted a gut laughing at that one, I can just picture
her giggling like a goofball.

Emcee: Okay Lizzie, here's another blast from the past. Can you tell us who belongs to this voice?

Voice (from offstage): Whoa! Whoa! I can't sell you that, not without a note. Hell no!

Lizzie (scowling): Bence! That shit for brains!

Emcee: Yes that shit for brains who wouldn't sell you the prussic acid!

(applause from the audience)

Emcee: Now supposing he had sold it to you? We wouldn't be sitting here today would we? And you probably wouldn't be living on the hill!

Lizzie: It was for cleaning a CAPE!

Emcee (winking to the monitor): Thats right, a cape was it....Now Mr. Bence, would you like to come out and join us?

Bence (from offstage): Er, not especially Sir.

Emcee: Oh come on, you've come all this way. Come on out and sit next to Miss Borden!

(The audience applauds until he appears from backstage. He is clearly terrified, and approaches Lizzie like a man going into a lion's cage.

Lizzie (sneering): Yes by all means, Bence! (patting the sofa) Come sit with Miss Borden...

Bence...Born in Braintree, 1865.  LABVM/L

This thread is too funny! 

Ah, yes, good old Eli.  Remember I have his medicine bottle from his drugstore in Pittsfield, MA?  It says, "Bence Pharmacy, 25 North Street, Pittsfield, Mass."  I keep it in my guest bathroom and like to imagine that Eli himself filled it with whatever potion was originally in it.  Probably not Prussic acid, though.

He was 5 years younger than Lizzie, she should have
flirted with him, that would have worked I betcha.
Younger men with older women flirting with them are
are just as inclined to fall for it as older men with
the much younger women. Oh, Mr Bence I don't know what
I shall do, I found the most dreadfull thing nibbling on
my cape and I just know it will be all gone before winter &
oh, Mr Bence! It is my very best cape, wont you help me?
My little housekeeping guide says prussic acid is the finest
you can buy............

(Message last edited Oct-21st-02  3:58 PM.)

From the Appendix to The Knowlton Papers on Bence:

"BENCE, ELI 1865 - 1915: born in Braintree, Massachusetts, son of William and Sarah J. (Hudson) Bence. He began his career as a clerk at several drugstores in Fall River, Massachusetts, employed by D. R. Smith from 1890 to 1895. His career took him to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and later to Pittsfield, where he became proprietor of his first store in 1905. He married twice; his first wife was Miss Sarah J. Mayhurst of Fall River and his second Miss Annie C. Maxfield of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He held office in several professional and fraternal organizations until his death in Pittsfield. He provided testimony at the inquest and preliminary trial and was summoned as a witness for the Commonwealth; his evidence, ruled as inadmissible in the higher court, pertained to the alleged attempt of Miss Lizzie A. Borden to purchase poison a few days before the murders."