There is a filmmaker named Lizzie Borden, a pornographer named Lizzie Borden, a heavy metal band named Lizzie Borden, and now a Roller Derby Queen named Lizzie Borden. She is a member of the Dairyland Dolls (Hurt in a Shirt) from Madison, Wisconsin.
I think she rather favors the acquitted axe murderess, don’t you? Is it the nose?
Bad Sue Quilts goes back to 1997. One of the earliest squares created was a Bad Sue/Lizzie Borden theme, quite well done I think!
The idea started in the 1980s when 12 members of a seamstress local in Lawrence, Kansas, created this quilt, which has since been purchased by collector Kitty Clark Cole and donated to the Michigan State University Museum in 2001:
This famous quilt started it all! This quilt was a collaborative effort. Bad things happen to Sue that could have only happened in the 1980s.
Skylab falls out the sky
Jaws III
Three-mile Island Nuclear Disaster
Suicidal Koolaid in Africa
Other Blocks find Sue:Eaten by a snake
Buried Alive
Hit by lightening
Space walking and coming unattached
Tied to railroad tracks
Hanging
Boiled in a pot
Shot by arrows
Strangled by a Sunflower
Bad Sue is a permutation of the old Sunbonnet Sue design, originated in the early 1900s by Bertha Corbett Melcher, a children’s book illustrator. She published “The Sunbonnet Babies” in 1900, in which she drew girls with their faces concealed by their bonnett.
The last Bad Sue swap was in 2005. The deadline for the next swap is fast approaching: September 15th, 2007. Here are the details.
The folks at Cyberoptix TieLab, the creators of hand silkscreened neckwear, have created a Lizzie Borden neccktie, called the 40 Whacks. Only $40, and $44 for the silk. If only I were a guy . . .
Concealed Weapons: 40 Whacks (Lizzie Borden)
This is our third in the Concealed Weapons series, each are double printed – a more subtle graphic is on the front only giving a slight clue to a more “loaded” graphic hidden on the back. The second image is concealed on the reverse until the wearer pulls it out for show and tell – or keeps it a secret to his/her self.Front: Lizzie Borden’s cameo
Back: “Perfect Axe” with Lizzie Borden’s initials
A Crime Classics episode featuring Lizzie Borden, from 30 September 1953.
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From M Radio:
Crime Classics was a U. S. radio docudrama which aired over CBS from June 15, 1953, to June 30, 1954.
Created, produced, and directed by radio actor/director Elliott Lewis, the program was a historical true crime series, examining crimes and murders from the past. It grew out of Lewis’ personal interest in famous murder cases and took a documentary-like approach to the subject, carefully recreating the facts, personages and feel of the time period. Comparatively little dramatic license was taken with the facts and events, but the tragedy was leavened with humor, expressed largely through the narration.
The crimes dramatized generally covered a broad time and place frame from ancient Greece to late 19th-century America. Each episode in the series was co-written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, in consultation with Lewis, although the scripting process was more a matter of research, as the stories were “adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts” or from the works of historians.
The cases ranged from famous assassinations (of Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar) and the lives (and often deaths) of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure cases, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua Spooner in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.
The only continuing character was the host/narrator, Thomas Hyland, played by Lou Merrill. Hyland was introduced by the announcer as a “connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders.” Merrill’s deadpan portrayal of Hyland provided the welcome note of tongue-in-cheek humor to the proceedings. Unlike the ghoulish weird storytellers of The Whistler and The Mysterious Traveler, Hyland was an ordinary fellow who, in a dry, droll manner, would present a tale from his files, his wry comments interspersed between dramatized scenes. The episodes would typically begin with Hyland inviting the audience to listen to a sound, from drops of rain to horses hooves, and then introducing the main players and events of his report. The titles also contributed to the series’ light tone, as they were intentionally pompous and usually laced with irony. Typical titles included “Your Loving Son, Nero,” “If a Body Needs a Body, Just Call Burke and Hare,” and “The Axe and the Droot Family… How They Fared.”
A roster of Hollywood radio actors filled the various historical roles. William Conrad was one of the more frequently heard performers, in such diverse parts as Nero, Blackbeard, Pat Garrett and King Arthur. Other performers and the victims and infamous villains they portrayed, included Jack Kruschen (as William Burke), Jay Novello (as William Hare and Dr. William Palmer), Mary Jane Croft (as Bathsheba Spooner and Marie, Marquise de Brinvilliers), Betty Lou Gerson (as Agrippina and Lucrezia Borgia), Edgar Barrier (as Julius Caesar), Harry Bartell (as Brutus), Hans Conried (as Ali Pasha), Herb Butterfield (as Lincoln and Leon Trotsky), Jack Edwards (as John Wilkes Booth and Cole Younger), Irene Tedrow (as Lizzie Borden), Clayton Post (as Jesse James) and Sam Edwards (as Billy the Kid and Bob Younger).
Composer Bernard Herrmann returned to radio to score all but one of the series episodes (with Wilbur Hatch substituting for that entry), capturing the sound and feel of the various time periods. During the fall of 1953, the show was scheduled back to back with On Stage, another dramatic anthology created by Lewis. He decided to connect the two by presenting “The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln” on Crime Classics while On Stage featured Our American Cousin, the play Lincoln had attended the night of his death. The experiment was unsuccessful, and according to radio historian John Dunning, earned Lewis a rebuke from network head William S. Paley.
Found this recent radio piece by Crossroads Paranormal Radio, presenting a Massachusetts Paranormal Radio podcast. They are covering the Lizzie Borden B&B. Aired June 24, 2007 08:35PM.
Here is a link to their podsite if you wish to subscribe.
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I was saddened to hear that the Lizzie Borden Conference scheduled for next August (2008) was cancelled. Not only because it was going to be the first big official get together for Lizzie Borden aficionados since the 100th anniversary conference in 1992, but because the brains and creativity behind this event really wanted it to happen and deserved a happier outcome.
If you have never met Shelley Dziedzic, you have not yet lived Lizzie. Shelley is one of those rare individuals who really cares about the experience people have when they visit Fall River to further study the case. Yes, she works at the Lizzie Borden B&B, but she also goes above and beyond the call of duty on a regular basis! Last week she took a day off of work to give three Lizzie Borden visitors a tour of Lizzie hotspots in Fall River. She wants everyone to enjoy their stay and get the most out of what little time they have in town. And all this from a person who lives in another state!
Shelley is a writer, historian, actress (in her time playing both Lizzie and Abby in the re-enactments at 92 Second Street on the 4th of August), wardrobe mistress, social director, textile expert, and I hear can even sing a mean tune. I find her of another time and place, a Victorian to the core. And I wish I knew where she gets her energy. Bottle that and you have found the fountain of youth.
Do I sound like a fan of hers? Yes I am. And the very day that the conference was cancelled, I had interviewed her for this blog to help promote the event. She was upbeat and positive and raring to go. And then the bottom dropped out when she lost her co-chair—-she couldn’t go on alone with all this planning and organizing to do—no one could. So she made the tough decision to stop now, while the planning was still in its initial stages.
I applaud her dream and know that if she could have made it happen she would have. That is the kind of gal she is.
So next time you are in Fall River stop by 92 Second Street and ask for Shell. You will be glad you did.
By the way, don’t forget to read her blog titled Warps and Wefts. She has some news in there you can’t get anywhere else, and some really kewl photos of the mantles at Maplecroft!
I have purchased some really kewl stuff from eBay seller capguncowgirl before and think her jewelry is original and wild. This new design is something I don’t have a great deal of interest in, mainly because she puts Lizzie Borden in with “serial killers”—which of course, even if you think she is guilty, she is not. If Lizzie did it, she would be considered a spree killer. I don’t think I have yet heard that she killed again.
Plus, since Lizzie was acquitted I feel wearing her image is a sort of statement. Wearing Manson’s image is not the kind of statement I personally want to make.
From the eBay sale:
This bracelet is amazing. It has all your favorite serial killers you could ever want! Theres Manson, Albert Fish, Lizzie Borden, Richard Ramierez and Dahmer! There are several different types of metals in this bracelet as well as some cutesy pink bead weaved in it. There is a clasp which is adjustable. Too cute for words and a great conversation piece!
SIZE: 6″-9″
Villisca, Iowa. 1912. Eight people were viciously bludgeoned to death with an axe. Josiah Moore, age 43, Sarah Montgomery Moore, age 44, Herman Moore, age 11, Katherine Moore, age 9, Boyd Moore, age 7, Paul Moore, age 5, Lena Stillinger, age 12 and her sister Ina, age 8, houseguests of the Moore children.
The house is said to be haunted and some rather interesting evidence is being collected by ghost hunters investigating the house. Here is a small sampling of some of the voices they caught on tape.
And MUCH more on Villisca EVPs here!
Scariest Places on Earth (ABC Family Channel) visited the house. Here is that segment:
There is an Online interview between Court TV and psychic Carla Baron, the star of Haunting Evidence. She is asked the proverbial question what other cases would you like to study. Here is her reply:
Q: What is the murder case you’d most like to investigate?
A: Jack the Ripper. I’d want to see what Jack did.
Q: Why not do it?
A: I don’t get involved unless I’m officially invited. I don’t have time to indulge myself.
I’d also like to study the Zodiac Killer. I’m a child of the seventies, which was the real dawn of serial killers. For some reason it became a big cultural influence back then.
I’d like to investigate Lizzie Borden, too. She was certainly a product of the media, and an early student of using the media to ‘swing’ things her way.
The new season of Haunting Evidence starts Wednesday, June 20th at 10PM E/P.
Ms. Baron’s her official website: www.carlabaron.net.
And this, Carla Baron’s bio from the CourtTV website:
Carla Baron, Psychic Profiler
Carla Baron is one of America’s most recognizable psychic profilers.
The daughter of an anesthesiologist father and mother who was a former nurse, Carla spent her early years as a concert pianist, a professional singer and Pennsylvania beauty queen (“You think the front lines in Iraq are bad? Go backstage at a beauty pageant,” she says.)
She began her work as a psychic while attending Carnegie Mellon University and has since done thousands of readings. “The questions I get aren’t ‘Is my husband cheating?’” she says. “They are more progressed. ‘What is my purpose? What am I here to do? What am I supposed to be learning?’”
Although she says she is constantly asked by police to help them with unsolved cases, she enjoys private readings “because they balance me. [Working on cases that involve] death all day wouldn’t suit me. In fact, I am surprised that I work with cops. When I was growing up, I didn’t even like cops. They were the ones who wrote me speeding tickets.”
Her work as a medium is complicated, and articulating what she does is difficult. “I am sort of like the third person on the telephone line,” she explains. “I am able to hear conversations between [the dead] and the living.”
Carla’s role in solving the crimes presented to the team in “Haunting Evidence,” she says, is “to go directly to the part of picture that can help us. I can extract info. Apply pieces of information and put it into a practical purpose.”
Why, then, doesn’t the murder victim simply disclose to her the identity of the killer? “I get asked that all the time. It’s because everyone needs to be part of the solution: the victim, the family, the police, me. Sometimes, the victims aren’t even sure what dimension they are in.”
Baron lives in Los Angeles. In her spare time, she enjoys television, singing, biking, and cooking.
Almost 8 minutes long, this is an investigation into the case by Entertainment reporter Tim Estiloz for CN8. He gets some facts incorrect, but it is GREAT to see the case explored in more than a 30 second sound bite.
What is extra great is that the report is from 1996 when the house was first opened as a B&B. You get to meet Martha McGinn, George Quigley, Ron Evans, and others. Vintage stuff and pretty nifty too!
Entertainment reporter Tim Estiloz takes you on an informative tour of the Lizzie Borden home where the infamous axe murders took place in the late 1800′s. This unsolved double murder continues to mystify and fascinate to this very day. This story also tells how this infamous home has been transformed into a uniquely popular “Bed and Breakfast” in Fall River, Massachusetts. A noteworthy aspect of this video is a fact based re-creation of the crime in the actual Borden home by the B&B’s former staff, vintage photographs, and a historical re-telling of the murders’ details – full of creepy, spine chilling inside facts. Estiloz balances the true story’s details… with a fun, humorous take on the horrific home’s past being transformed into a popular “Bed and Breakfast”. This video was written and produced by Tim Estiloz – who is currently a reporter for CN8 The Comcast Network
Very clever! This goes in the wish I thought of that category!
I have always been interested in reading true crime. I don’t know if this comes from being the child of reading parents who passed such books onto me when they were finished, or if it was because I come from the city where Ted Bundy was finally convicted. The trial was held in my town. I didn’t see any of it in person, but watched it (pre-CourtTV) on the local news every night. We even purchased one of those yellow suction cup babyonboard thingys one time that read “Bake Bundy” and hung it on our refrigerator.
Long story short, I have read an enormous amount of true crime books. My all time favorite is Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection by Emlyn Williams. It is the story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, a true folie à deux, who in 1963 murdered as many as five young people in England. The book is literate and well-written and I am lucky to have found it when I did—as it spurred me to read more true crime at an age when I could have ventured off into other topics if faced with a bad book on a subject.
The book was published in 1968 and you can still find it easily enough in used bookstores or online for very little money.
It wasn’t until 2001 that I stumbled upon an update to the Brady/Hindley story in an odd little book titled The Gates of Janus written by one of the killers themselves!–Ian Brady. It was the handiwork of the uber-prolific true crime writer Colin Wilson, who had written Brady in prison and started a correspondence, visiting him and learning about him first-hand. It is the eeriest book I have ever read. Here is what Publisher’s Weekly has to say:
The infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, but it’s emphatically “not an apologia.” The child pornographer and convicted killer (of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, 12-year-old John Kilbride and others) spends the first half of the book contending that killers such as himself, who are free from societal, religious and moral chains, are able to provide greater insight into the criminal mind than psychiatrists, crime reporters or police. But this argument, in and of itself, is unsurprising, and any logical authority Brady might have been able to build up is undermined by page after page of his nihilistic ranting. Pointing to myriad problems present in overpopulated, self-satisfied, privileged societies, Brady imagines contemporary culture as a breeding ground for serial killers. To prove his point, he attempts psychological profiles of Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and other notorious killers. But these chapters are not profiles so much as they are detailed accounts of the gruesome crimes committed. While revisiting such felonies might be enjoyable for the hardcore true crime fan, for most readers the depictions will feel as gratuitous as the heinous crimes they describe. The relentlessly abrasive and controversial social critic Sotos (Pure), an aficionado of murders recorded on audio tape, adds a provocative afterword.
Indeed. It isn’t until after reading that afterword that all things came together into one enormous understanding of just what was going on in this case. It was riveting and intense.
Myra Hindley died a few years ago in prison. Brady is still around, never to be released. He is one scary dude!
I can’t say enough good things about Williams’ book, and I can’t warn you enough about Brady’s diatribe. It is a frightening exploration into the mind of a serial killer. It will make you angry and confused and you might even want to write Brady yourself when you read how he bastardizes Nietzsche to his own use. I almost did, but was talked out of it by my sister who warned me about getting personal with such individuals—they are experts at using people. I am glad I took her advice and didn’t write.
But I still wish I had gone at least one day to the Bundy trial. The courthouse where it took place is still there, but it has been turned into an historical museum. They also operate ghost tours of the facility at night. Apparently, they feel the place is haunted from all the events that have transpired there over the years. Like Lizzie Borden’s trial courthouse, which still stands in New Bedford, and is open to the public when the court is not in session, Ted Bundy’s courtroom still stands, open to historical types and paranormal investigators.
I don’t know why I am into this right now, but here are some more ghosts. I found this on google video. It is 41 minutes long and has video of stuff happening. Cool!
You can see it below or see it big screen here.
Found this on a Myspace site. The description says “my mom in my garage talking to something that messed with her car its pretty creepy no video just audio and captions.”
I can hear it when I turn the volume way up. This isn’t a joke movie, one of the hundreds that are posted that make you get close to the screen to hear and then they just pop out at you for the scare. This is a voice in the garage. Very scary!
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