The behavior of guilty people
In Sebastian Junger’s new book A Death in Belmont, he discusses the 1963 murder of Bessie Goldberg a few streets over from where he lived as a child in Belmont, Mass., a suburb of Boston. Working for Junger’s mother, building an art room addition to his house, was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. He had […]
Lizzie in 1923
From the New York Times, May 12, 1923:
Lizzie Borden Walks Free Again
Back in 1997, Stanford University conducted a 90 minute dramatization of the trial of Lizzie Borden. The jury was the large attending audience and the presiding justices were Stanford alums Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist. This article is from the September 19, 1997 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly online edition, and describes the […]
Oh for the good old days
This from the July 30, 1998 South Coast Today. Lizzie will come alive at seminar By Carol Lee Costa-Crowell, Standard-Times staff writer FALL RIVER — All right all you Lizzie Borden fans, get ready to gear up for four days of Lizzie mania. The seventh annual Lizzie Borden Expo begins Saturday, and this time all […]
Lizzie to lecture
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1893, three days after her acquittal: