This Thursday, June 18, 2015, at 7 PM, you can tune in on your computer to watch a debate/discussion on this very issue on Forensic Week.
This weekly show is hosted by Tom Mauriello, an educator who teaches criminal justice and forensic sciences at the University of Maryland. He is considered a forensics and education and training expert – with a particular niche as a generalist, strategist, and public speaker.
You may remember Tom from his appearance on the Discovery Channel documentary, Lizzie Borden Had an Axe, in 2004. He appeared with Tom Lange, of OJ Simpson fame, and they forensically investigated the case using luminal and other tools. He conducted one of my all time favorite examinations using a large dollhouse, built to scale, to help show the scene of the crime with a birds-eye view of the inside and outside at the same time.
This week’s show is all about the “incest theory” as presented by Dr. Stephen Kane. He wrote a paper that was presented at the Lizzie Borden Centennial in Fall River, MA, in 1992, titled, “Lizzie Borden, Anxious Attachment and Forty Whacks: A Systemic Exploration of Incest and Parricide.” He has since expanded his theory to include new research into right brain development that he believes further argues his point that Lizzie Borden killed her parents because she was a victim of incest.
I will also be on the show arguing the opposite, or shall I say, disproving, in my way, his thesis. There will be no winners here, just a lively discussion of the Borden crime wrapped in an incest theory.
We will be video casting from the Lizzie Borden B&B Museum, thanks to the gracious Lee-Ann Wilbur.
If you miss the show, Tom posts them on his Forensic Week YouTube channel here.
