About a hundred years before the O.J. trial, there had been another “trial of the century.” This one involved a daughter’s alleged hatchet murder of her father and her stepmother. As with the O.J. case, the Borden trial...
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August/September Timeline
A timeline of the months of August and September relating to the Borden case. Not exhaustive.
Lizzie in Film and Television
The Borden murders are America’s most enduring and fascinating murder mystery, so it is not surprising that they have frequently affected that most quintessentially American art form, the motion picture, as well as its...
Dear Abby, June/July, 2004
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.
Knowing Ruby
The telephone rang and my dear friend’s voice on the other end said, “Have you read the Ellsworth American?”
The Borden House: Frame by Frame, Part 2
The domain of the two Borden girls seemed prettier and more opulent than the area that proscribed the elder Borden’s part of the house.
Lizzie Borden Slept Here
I thought I had chosen a simple enough assignment. I would run over to Tyngsborough to track down the famous house where Lizzie Borden slept: the Massachusetts summer home of Nance O’Neil. I would learn what I could...
Spotlight on Orinton M. Hanscom
by Harry Widdows First published in June/July, 2004, Volume 1, Issue 3, The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies. While thumbing through a book titled The Torture Doctor on the late 1800s Chicago serial killer, H.H...
Lizzie Quizzie
Pop quiz! Close your reference books and see how you do with our “Lizzie Borden Test”. Answers and scoring are at the end of the quiz.