Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Does any one know if Lizzie has any living relatives? Just curious.
And if there are any living relatives, wander what they think of this forum?

I wonder if they wonder about why we wonder about the wonder of Miss Lizbeth ?


Tracy...

I think there is/was a Donald Borden who opposed Prof. Starrs digging up the Borden graves. Living in Maryland, or some such place. If you look up the Prof. Starrs items on the net, you will find the family *spokesman.*

Kat @ Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:25 am wrote:I think there is/was a Donald Borden who opposed Prof. Starrs digging up the Borden graves. Living in Maryland, or some such place. If you look up the Prof. Starrs items on the net, you will find the family *spokesman.*

You were close Kat, I did a search and found some information about it on this site.

http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws9.htm

"That's just the kind of romantic notion that puts a bee in Starrs' bonnet. Six years ago, he abandoned one of his favorite causes after receiving dozens of letters from relatives of the deceased protesting his investigation. Starrs had wanted to look into the notorious Lizzie Borden case and probe the charges that Borden had murdered her parents with a pickax. "The worst part about it," Starrs laments, years later, "was that [the relatives] also said that they liked the mystery—the mystery being that even though she was acquitted, that everybody else thought she was guilty. They liked that. They were happy with that." Starrs says he has no patience for living with mystery, even though his digs usually do little to actually resolve the debate.

One of the descendants who wrote a protest letter is an Alexandria resident named Douglas Borden. Although he refuses to comment, his wife, Joan, remembers Starrs well: "He was extremely accusatory toward Douglas. He thought he was some sort of ringleader or something." Both she and her husband still want nothing to do with Starrs. "Let the dead lie in peace, regardless of who they are. Just let 'em lie," she says. "

Douglas in Virginia is close to Donald in Maryland?
You are being diplomatic!

So I guess there are living relatives. Wonder if they are interested in the case? Wander if they think miss Lizbeth did it?