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Harry
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by Harry » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:17 pm
The Borden murder case wins this poll as Crime of the 19th Century.
http://crime.about.com/library/weekly/aa010100a.htm
I have to disagree. Despite my interest in the Borden case, it pales in importance when comparing it to the Lincoln assassination.
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by FairhavenGuy » Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:23 pm
Yes, Harry, but Booth didn't get away with murder.
I think Lizzie would be the unsolved crime of the 19th Century in the U.S. and Jack the Ripper the crime of the 19th Century in the U.K.
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by Harry » Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:44 pm
Sorry, but I think there is no comparison.
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by Haulover » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:10 pm
there's no comparison in the sense that the lizzie borden case is the most baffling of the two.
we know what happened during "our american cousin" -- the murder was public.
are you thinking of lincoln's stature in history? that's another subject, isn't it?
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by Harry » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:53 pm
The poll was for the Crime of the century . Not whether it was solved or not. We are talking about a crime, not a trial.
The Borden case to me is a Who Done It case and how was it done. I'll let others read into it what they want. If it happened today it would just be another horrible crime.
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by Susan » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:44 am
It sounds like it was based on the crime that most people on that site were more interested in than based on the magnitude of the crime.
I guess us Bordenites are everywhere.