Eureka College students take a whack at Lizzie Borden case

[patsy]

So they say they would have found Lizzie guilty.

Article by
LENORE SOBOTA lenore.sobota@lee.net
Lenore Sobota
Education Reporter

Dec 4, 2018

https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/e ... awu_0JhBEQ

Eureka, Illinois

Excerpt

EUREKA — Lizzie Borden may or may not have given her father and stepmother numerous whacks with an ax in the infamous 1892 murder in Fall River, Mass..

But William Lally, associate professor of criminal justice at Eureka College, thinks a sloppy investigation and lack of sophisticated testing procedures were the reasons she was acquitted by a jury.

“With today's technology, there's no doubt in my mind they'd be able to convict her,” Lally said as he stood in a guest house on campus where the Borden murder scene was recreated in gruesome detail for the benefit of two courses at the college.

The scene was recreated in three rooms of the former home of the college president, through the efforts of the college's theater and prop departments, and students in associate professor Marty Lynch's Stage Design class.

[LABRhush]

Wow what a fun class! He's def right about the crime scene and investigation being mishandled. But beyond that, the social climate for women in the Victorian Era did every bit as much, if not more, to get her aquitted. That would never work today.

[patsy]

Yes, LABRhush, no doubt that the case was mishandled and the scene had to be contaminated. Apparently moving a body probably to take a picture was so wrong, and letting people traipse around the house after the bodies were found is a big no. Now when a scene is processed there are different levels of types of searches compared to how they were done back then.I never heard whether they searched past the neighbor's house while looking for the weapon, only that they looked in the barn and privy and next door.