Lizzie Borden Society Forum

I was surfing the net, and came across an article, "How Lizzie Got Away with it.", and came across a statement.
It is suggested that the auther Lincoln suggests that lizzie may have suffered from temporal epilepsy, which may have suggested why there were blank stares on occasions.

This might explain why she couldn't keep here stories straight. I do know that you can function during a temporal epilepsy and not remember anything about what went on at the time.
So could it be possible that maybe she did the murders during one of those siezures and just not remember? It would fall in line with those kinds of seizures.

Did the article mention whether there was anything which might trigger a temporal epileptic seizure, or are they more or less random events?

I imagine it would be possible for someone with temporal epilepsy to commit murder while having a seizure, but what is the probability of two such events within two hours? Anything is possible, but anything is not probable.

Snok,

Do you have a link/web address so that we may read the same article "

Thanks !


Tracy...

knowing the medical field like I do, anything can cause a seizure, stress, not eating right,etc., etc,.

Snok,

What is your experience with the medical field ? Is it something you did in the Marines ? Also...do you have a web address for the article you mentioned ?

Thanks.


Tracy...

I have to wonder if the stress level for Lizzie was higher before or after the murders, if stress can trigger seizures.

Tracy, you can find the article at:

http://crimemagazine.com/borden.htm

Thank you Harry ! An interesting article. The author mentions that the reason Emma left was Lizzie threw a party for Nance...

Here's the last part of the article:
Aftermath

During the 13 days of testimony that led to Lizzie Borden’s acquittal, the key players had their names splashed in nearly every national newspaper. After the trial, five of them remained in the public eye. Though he failed in his endeavor to convict Lizzie, Knowlton became attorney general of the State of Massachusetts. Andrew Jennings became the district attorney of Bristol County. The Borden sisters also rewarded him for his ardent defense of Lizzie by naming him to the board of directors of the Globe Yarn Mill, one of Andrew Borden’s companies. William Moody gained fame when in 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him attorney general of the United States.

Lizzie was acquitted in the courtroom but not in Fall River. In the very town where she sought acceptance, she was ostracized. Twenty-nine days after the death of Andrew and Abby Borden, Emma received possession of the Borden estate. Five weeks after Lizzie’s acquittal, the two sisters moved up onto The Hill into a 13-room Victorian house that Lizzie subsequently christened Maplecroft. Seven months after her acquittal, Emma gave Lizzie her share of the inheritance, for all the good it did. Maplecroft became Lizzie’s prison and refuge. Over the years the sisters were relegated more and more to their own company, as no one really wanted to befriend Lizzie.

In 1897, a warrant was issued for Lizzie, regarding a theft of two paintings from a local gallery. She was told that if she signed a confession, the warrant would not be served, but she stubbornly held her ground and refused to sign until the last possible second. While Emma grew more introverted, Lizzie traveled. It was in Boston that she met and greatly admired Nance O’Neil, a Boston actress. Such a profession was still considered unacceptable to most women’s sense of morality at that time, and so when Lizzie gave a lavish party for Miss O’Neal at Maplecroft, Emma became so offended that a rift developed between the two sisters. Emma moved out of the house and relocated to New Hampshire, where she lived without speaking to Lizzie for the next 22 years.

In 1926, Lizzie was admitted to the hospital for a gall bladder operation. Three months later she returned to Maplecroft, but she never regained her health. The following year, at the age of 67, she died. Ten days later, her sister died as well. Both are buried together in the family cemetery beside the bodies of Abby, Andrew and Andrew’s first wife, Sarah.

Here's some info on Temporal Epilepsy:
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilep ... llobe.html


Tracy...