1. "Do we really want the Borden case solved?"
Posted by stuart on Feb-7th-03 at 9:19 PM

I have been learning quite a lot from all of the intelligent and thoughtful posts here. My question for one and all, is: How would you really feel if some new evidence were to come to light that would solve the Borden case? Since the case represents something different to us each individually, I'm curious what you all think.
Speaking for myself, I'm rather torn on the question. One of my attractions to the case is the sheer impossibility of it all, and that makes it such a classic case. On the other hand, if such evidence ever did turn up (however unlikely), I'm sure I'd be dying of curiosity!

I wouldn't mind this case being solved as long as I solved it!

I wonder what it could possibly be, tho, which would definetly close this case?  Any idea?
I think it would be very satisfying to finally know the answer.

I think it would ruin everything if it was ever solved.
You can't really sit around and go over all the details
if someone has told you the answer.

Once the puzzle is completed you either glue it to cardboard and put it on the wall or break it up again and put it back in the box. I usually don't redo puzzles I have completed. Just move on to a harder one.

The problem with this case is that there are so many scenarios that sort of fit the evidence but not quite exactly. We should make a list of theories here. That would seem a natural progression to your question. We already have Kat's big list of suspects on LizzieAndrewBorden.com.

I personally think that if by chance it was solved, there would still be a bunch of people who do not believe for a second whatever the verdict turned out to be, therefore it would still have alot of controversy surrounding it. (that's one long sentence huh)
     Red

Yes, I think you're right, RedFern.

i think i would really like it solved.  i can't imagine what "new evidence" would do it, but i sincerely would like to know exactly what happened that day.  i realize this is probably not possible, which is why i put it aside at times, but i would sincerely like to know the truth.

How old are you haulover?
Do you think there is a split by age, as to who would like to really know the solution?

I was born just about the time after all the players in this case were dead. There is NO CHANCE to solve this case in a court of law, where you hear arguments from two sides of skilled advocates.

AR Brown said the court case was to cover up the real killer, and it has worked for 110 years. NOTHING "found" will change this. EG: was that hatchet and sawn-off handle the real thing, or a replica?

I'd sooner expect the killing of JFK to be solved, and that won't happen EVER. (That's another topic with many, many more books.)

A similarly puzzling case, the 1913 Leo Frank/Mary Phagan case in Atlanta, actually WAS solved some years ago by a "deathbed" confession by somone actually involved in the case, though not the  murderer.  Despite that, the case continues to be intriguing.  I think some people (myself included) don't necessarily take the "solution" to be the final one.  It involved the word of one person against that of a suspect who was no longer living and able to defend himself.  Possibly a belated Borden solution would have a similar effect.

kat:

i'll be 42 in april.

as to your other question, i hadn't thought about it.  did you have some insight on it?

Okay, possibly a strange analogy, but, I'm on another chat forum where we discuss Disney's Haunted Mansion which is like the granddaddy of all dark rides.  I now know how all the special effects are done, how they make the ghosts move, etc.  I've seen many behind the scenes photos with the lights on and I'm still fascinated by it!

I think the same would hold true for me if the Borden case was ever solved, I would still be fascinated by it!  But, what is the missing piece or pieces to the puzzle that would do it? 

If this case gets solved before August 3rd, 4th and 5th of 2005 then everything I am doing to move on a Second Symposium will have an even BIGGER purpose.  But for the sake and sanity of all Bordenia and the mulitude of Bordenites let's not TRY too hard to find the solution.

Not just yet...

BC

hey, i love that word, "bordenia"!  

i was going along, minding my own business, when suddenly i was attacked by a case of bordenia.

i am a latter day victim of lizzie borden.  i have bordenia.  there doesn't appear to be a cure.

hahaha

I'm smiling at you guys!


BTW:  I didn't know if there was a correlation between being 50 and older and not minding a solution to this case--as opposed to those , say 40 and younger, who still want the mystery intact for their persuit for at least 10 more years......

Like maybe a younger person is not done yet....

Half the fun is trying to figure it out --- by going over
every little detail & it just seems like if you know how
the story ends you don't have anything to solve yourself.
Even though everyone is dead the story isn't over, someone
got away with murder. Would Lizzie still be interesting if
she was really found to be not guilty? I was looking at a
picture of her the other day --- just staring at her --- and
it was just strange to look at her & know what she might have
done, she doesn't give away the secret at all!

i've had the same thought about that picture where she's looking directly at the camera.  wasn't it taken shortly after the verdict?  she looks relieved.  i wonder how she looked during the trial.

At her trial she looked prime and proper...but under that facade she was probably shaking like a leaf. 

BC