For whatever reason, no one had paid for the perpetual care, or “endowment fee” as it’s known today. Had Mrs. Porter paid it back in 1904, it probably would have cost her all of ten dollars.
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Sherry ChapmanMurder Most Foul: Crime Scene Investigation and the Lizzie Borden Case An Interview with Professor Thomas Mauriello
Tom Mauriello has over 34 years of professional experience in the criminal justice sciences.
Stefani KooreyNeilson Caplain: An Extraordinary Gentleman
When we asked him if she did it—he always answered—“She didn’t do it, but she had to have done it.”
Ron CaplainEmma’s Boston Post 1913 Interview: A Mystery of Doubt
It has always been believed that Emma Borden gave an interview to Edwin Maguire of the Boston Post in 1913, one week following a story about her sister’s life appeared in the Boston Herald.
Leonard RebelloPreston Hicks Gardner
Preston and Mary had taken in Emma a few years after she left Lizzie and Maplecroft.
Kat KooreyOrrin Augustus Gardner
The late historian of Swansea, Helen Pierce, described her memories of the little two-room school on blocks in a field.
Swansea’s Treasures
The images on the following pages add a new chapter to the narrative, but by no means finish the story.
The Bordens by Daylight: New Discoveries in Swansea
Last August, while touring Luther’s Museum in Swansea, Massachusetts, I happened upon a previously unseen large oval gilt-framed portrait of Andrew Jackson Borden as a younger man.
Dear Abby, November, 2007
Dear Abby is a humorous series that purports that people wrote into the Fall River newspaper and Abby Borden responded with sage advice—well, sometimes.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is the subject of great critical controversy, a controversy that is similar to that surrounding the case to which this journal owes its existence, in its ability to generate theories and counter...
Denise Noe