City Marshal John Fleet Calls Fall River a ‘Moral City’
On 16 October 1910, the Boston Daily Globe reported that City Marshal John Fleet had a high regard for Fall River. If you remember, John Fleet was Assistant City Marshal under Marshal Hilliard at the time of the Borden murders of 1892. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts VS. Lizzie A. Borden; The Knowlton Papers, 1892-189 […]
New Lizzie Borden Book Due Out This Year
I finally received my copy of the Fall River Historical Society Report for Fall 2007 and was pleased as punch to read that this year they are going to publish an important new book that centers on Lizzie Borden. I may be behind on the news, but I still wanted to share the information they […]
Lizzie Borden Live
Lizzie Borden Live is a one-woman play, written and performed by Jill Dalton, and directed by Fall River’s Jack McCullough. You can read more about the play and Jack and Jill in the November 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies and on a recent entry on MondoLizzie. I invite you now […]
Lizzie Borden Errors of Fact
Every so often I read an article or news story that makes me shake my head and grumble. I kvetch when an author makes inaccurate statements regarding the Borden murders of 1892. Not the small details, which most are prone to do, because unless you really study this case you might miss those tiny facts. […]
Lizzie Borden Theft of Content
UPDATE: As of 10 PM tonight, just four short hours since my rant below, the owner of the site in question has removed the content in question. Three cheers for truth and justice. Thank you to all who wrote and sent me good wishes! I thank you all for your good work. There is a […]
Lizzie Borden’s Cellar Visit by GardenBay Films
Check this out! Filmmaker Richard Behrens has done it again—made a Lizzie Mini film and posted in on YouTube.com. This one stars Shelley Dziedzic as Lizzie and offers us a truly great tour of the cellar at 92 Second Street by the author of Lizzie Borden Past & Present, Leonard Rebello. The film is fabulous! […]
Jonathan Goodman 1932-2008
As first reported in the London Telegraph.co.uk, and most recently on Laura James’ wonderful blog CLEWS, Great Britain’s leading crime historian passed away on January 10th at the age of 76. His Lizzie Borden connection is that he penned the compendium Bloody Versicles, a must-have for any Borden library. In the 1970s Goodman edited the […]
Lizzie Borden for Free
Here is a potpourri of free Lizzie Borden items for your collection. I am always amazed by what I find when surfing the net, and my mission is to share it with you so you can enjoy it too! 1. Verdict in Dispute by Edgar Lustgarten (1949). The entire 264 page volume has been scanned […]
Lizzie Borden and Life Magazine
A very recent publication contains a few pages about the Borden Murders: Life: The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases from the Files – in Pictures by the editors of Life Magazine. I am most excited by this book because it mentions The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies in the text! […]
Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night
Filmmaker Eric Swelstad has produced a sequel to the gross-out horror flick The Curse of Lizzie Borden, and it is due out on DVD in early 2008. Interesting that Lizzie has now become a horror icon. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. The first film was pure camp and worth the price […]
Other Lizzie Borden Christmas Goodies
Speaking of gifting Lizzie Borden this holiday season, why not consider these neato presents: 1. Unabridged audiobook version of the A&E Biography on Lizzie Borden, available through iTunes at only 95 cents. 55 minutes in length. 2. Unabridged audiobook version of Edgar Lustgarten’s “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe: the Famous Trials Series,” available through iTunes […]
Lizzie Borden Episode on The Practice
On season two of the now defunct ABC TV show The Practice, they did an episode with the following storyline: “With help from Ally McBeal, the firm defends a murder suspect who claims she was Lizzie Borden in a past life. Ellenor learns the truth about Dr. Spivak.” That episode is now available for download […]
Lizzie Borden now a “Whacky Hotel”
AOhell recently listed some “whacky” places to stay and listed the Lizzie Borden B & B as a must see site. The image is really kewl!
Lizzie Borden and the Today Show
On October 31, the Today Show aired an interview between Natalie Morales and paranormal researcher Rebecca Muller regarding various and sundry supernatural subjects—voodoo, Amityville Horror, exorcisms, and of all things, Lizzie Borden. I am not sure what Ms. Muller’s bona fides are, but she gets the Amityville story a bit wrong since the entire haunting […]
Staying at Lizzie Borden’s House Part II
In a previous entry on Mondo Lizzie Borden, I recommended OTIS (Odd Things I’ve Seen) and his part one of a two part series about staying at the Lizzie Borden B&B. I hope you have read it as it is well worth the visit! Part two has now been posted and you will enjoy this […]
Lizzie Borden Had an Axe
DiscoveryTimes cable network will be showing Lizzie Borden Had an Axe tonight, Monday, November 26, at 8PM and 11PM EST. This is the latest documentary on the case, made for the Discovery Channel a few years ago in 2004. In it you will see Detective Tom Lange (of OJ Simpson fame) and professor of criminology […]
Staying at Lizzie Borden’s House
A blogger with a site named OTIS (odd things I’ve Seen) is penning a two part missive on his stay at the Lizzie Borden B&B. What makes this contribution to the world of Lizzie different is that OTIS is well done. While the actual identity of the writer remains a mystery (he says his name […]
FR Herald News on Andrew Borden Portrait Find
I am happy to announce that today the Fall River Herald News has done a rather lengthy piece on The Hatchet’s discovery of the previously unknown Andrew Borden portrait (see below for other blog entries on this remarkable image). The story on how it was found can be read in this issue of The Hatchet. […]