Mondo Lizzie Borden

This may be old news to you, but it is something I stumbled upon today. The complete text of Alice Brayton’s Life on the Stream is online for you to download to your computer!

Life on the Stream is an overview of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century. Volume One contains information on Holder Borden, Avery’s Knot; Olive Bowen Howland; the letter books of the Nail Factory, the Iron Works, and the Troy Mill; the payroll of the Anawan Mill; letters and excerpts from various diaries; and three sermons preached by the Rev. Orin Fowler. Volume Two provides information on the Great Fire, the Night Watch, the Fall River Railroad, the community’s militia, and further letters and diary extracts.

Here is the direct link to the PDF file of Volume ONE.

Here is direct link to the PDF file of Volume TWO.

Noted forensic criminologist and professor at the University of Maryland will be appearing on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood on May 4th.

Tomm was the featured interview in the last issue of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History-—-having served as an expert on the most recent documentary on the case for Discovery Channel: Lizzie Borden Had an Axe.

Says Tomm,

The show is on from 9:00 to 1030 AM. I thought you might find it interesting. If there is some breaking news, it will be pushed to the next Sunday. You know how that goes. I don’t know long the segment will be, but it is a topic that they have been working on for a while. Thanks for watching! TOMM

I’ll be watching!

You were acquitted yet people still think you murdered your father and stepmother. For all your suffering at the hands of those who think that the justice system makes mistakes (and you know who you are), MondoLizzie has sent your name to the moon.

Enjoy.

I was watching a stupendous documentary from the series Investigative Reports on the A&E channel on cable the other day and learned a new fact. The show was a rerun of the 1998 film “Peace, Love, and Murder.”

Review Summary

This documentary, part of the Investigative Reports series from A&E, examines the story of hippie-turned-fugitive Ira Einhorn. Narrated by host and producer Bill Kurtis, this episode looks at the life of the radical who played a major role in the antiwar peace and love movement of the 1960s. In 1977, Einhorn was arrested after his girlfriend was found murdered. With the help of some of his powerful associates, Einhorn was able to flee the country and escape incarceration for 20 years. After police caught up with him in France in 1997, Einhorn still managed to allude jail time. Investigative Reports interviews some of the people who have been involved in this case through the years, including law enforcement officials, lawyers, and members of the victim’s family who would like justice to be served. ~ Cecilia Cygnar, All Movie Guide

One thing jumped at me. Ira Einhorn, the killer, is also Ira Einhorn the organizer of the very first Earth Day in Philadelphia in the the 1970s.

CrimeLibrary.com confirms the report.

The Magic City Morning Star even has a piece from two years ago titled, “Ira Einhorn, Earth Day’s Dirty Secret.”

If you read a lot to true crime, as I do, you know all about Ira and the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux.

And if this is not weird enough for you, Einhorn’s attorney was ARLEN SPECTOR. Yup, that Arlen Spector.

Arrested, Einhorn’s attorney was considering a run for the Senate. His name was Arlen Spector, of Pennsylvania. The darling of New Age society, politicians, Ivy League professors, and corporate executives alike, Einhorn had no shortage of friends during his bail hearing. With his great love for the earth, surely Ira would not have murdered anyone. Released on a mere $40,000 bail, of which he had to pay only ten percent, Einhorn fled to Sweden, remaining as a fugitive in Europe until 1997, when he was found living in France under another name.

While a fugitive, Einhorn was convicted in absentia in 1993, and sentenced to life in prison. The government of France, however, refused to extradite Einhorn unless the death penalty was taken off the table and he was promised a new trial. Eventually, this was agreed upon. Ira Einhorn, the founder of Earth Day, was once again convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Today, we celebrate Earth Day, sacrosanct, proclaimed by none other than our Republican President George Bush, and every president since 1975, when President Ford first proclaimed and urged observance of Earth Day on the March equinox.

We’re living in a time where wacky is in, and life doesn’t mean very much.

While it is likely that Einhorn’s violent history is not shared by other Earth Day founders, the observance is nevertheless bizarre.

There you have it.

It has been a long wait. The first Curse of Lizzie Borden was a cracker jack movie. Campy, campy, campy. Now we have the second in the series. I ordered mine. Have you?

“HOW MANY MORE OF US ARE GOING TO DIE, CASSIE?”

From the UK, an original watercolor on watercolor paper. Here is the skinny from the sale on eBay.

Busy Lizzie

8″ x 11″ signed original watercolour on watercolour paper by Dominic Murphy. I will post worldwide and combine postage on multiple items. Thanks for looking. Check out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favourites list!

Lizzie Borden took an axe

Gave her mother forty whacks

When she saw what she had done

Gave her father forty-one

Link.

A recent LiveJournal entry by Jennifer Simon made me think that maybe she had some insight into Lizzie’s state of mind in 1892. Of course, it wouldn’t have been a hassle over computers and downloading, but the proximity issues combined with insecurities and communication problems would certainly add to the violent mix.

The entry is not only well written, but an eloquent psychological analysis of what it must be like to be 30 and living at home.

Lizzie Borden took an ax. . . . .
When I was growing up Lizzie Borden was my hero. She was bold, she was honest, and she did very little to cover up what she did. I can just imagine her with the police: “My mother? Oh no, she’s not my mother. She’s my step mother. Murdered you say? With an ax? Well that’s something, isn’t it.”

The more I think about her, the more it feels like I can relate. She was in her thirties (which I will be, eventually) and still living with her parents (which I am, currently). And her alibi? She wasn’t killing her parents, she was in the shed binging on pears! Personally I wouldn’t eat in our shed, and I don’t binge on fruit (except rasins). Lizzie and I weren’t separated at birth but I think we would have been friends.

I’m not actually going to hurt my parents. My mom just made me extrememly angry this morning. Apparently, I download too much and that makes our internet slow. I have not done anything different. I have not been downloading more lately. I have not done anything. Yet I pretty much daily face her accusations and lectures about how I’m being inconsiderate (wtf? Get a freaking hobby mom!). She has no idea how to use the computer. Seriously! A few weeks ago I bought her a set of card games and she had to ask me how to close the program. Umm . . . . try the x button at the top right? And yet she feels justified in telling me that my usage is too much. And she decided that *we* agreed that I would never download anything ever again. HELL NO. I never agreed to that. She doesn’t pay any attention to reality. She just doesn’t.

I’m so mad at her. She just isn’t all there (and she’s getting worse with age). It’s so frustrating, I give up. Forget it! I’m just not going to talk to her anymore. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about and there’s no convincing her otherwise.