Last night I attended the fifth Lizzie Borden lecture, sponsored by the Fall River Historical Society, held at Bristol Community College.
It was a talk by Kim Dennis, Canadian clairvoyant/medium, who said that Lizzie Borden came to her during a session she had at her home in Calgary with a woman named Lizzie. After the woman left, a soul remained, and she identified herself as Lizzie Borden (the woman who Kim was doing the reading for had mentioned that she had been joshed about her name, and that the only Lizzie she knew of was Lizzie Borden).
Ms. Dennis said the spirit told her answers to questions and volunteered some info as well. Here is “Lizzie’s Story”:
Lizzie freely admitted that killed both her parents but she had reasons.
Lizzie had tried to kill Abby a few weeks before with poison but nothing came of it.
That morning she was eating oatmeal with Abby and found out that her father was planning to leave all his money to Abby’s family, and she had it with her.
Lizzie had issues of abandonment because of her mother’s death.
Lizzie had a lazy eye.
Lizzie had a brother named William and a sister named Alice.
Lizzie was a kleptomaniac and thought that if she could get away with murder she could get away with stealing too.
Lizzie was a sociopath who had no conscious. She had no feelings and exhibited none to the police. She was calm and collected. No emotion.
Lizzie was not sorry for what she did, but she only planned on killing Abby. She went out to the barn to clean up after killing Abby, and had plans to go to the library so someone else could discover the body, but Andrew came home early and she had to kill him or she would be accused of killing Abby.
Lizzie had two dresses, blue ones, that looked similar, and she burned one.
Lizzie had chloroformed a cat for mange but also chopped off its head, which was unnecessary—it showed her sociopathic tendencies.
Lizzie stayed in Fall River because she liked the notoriety. But she only went out at night.
Emma left in 1905 because she read something Lizzie wrote and realized that Lizzie had killed their parents, so they never spoke again.
There are cats that haunt the B&B. She has seen Andrew there too, but he walks around outside the house, circling the property.
Lizzie hid the hatchet in a drawstring purse and got rid of it at a later date, it will never be found.
when someone asked if a woman could hit someone with a hatchet so many times, she said yes, it was an emotional hate-filled event (this to me didn’t jibe with the sociopath description).
Lizzie is kept around because everyone is constantly calling her here. If people could just accept that she killed them both, she could move on.
Ms. Dennis and her traveling companion, a woman who introduced her, are writing a book about Lizzie (or it will be part of a book). The woman is a Canadian journalist.
Ms. Dennis confirmed all this information with the folks that work at the Lizzie Borden B&B.
