The November 2007 Hatchet is Online and For Sale
The November 2007 issue of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies has been placed ONLINE for subscribers. This issue is extra special as it includes a story about the discovery of the new Andrew image, news, information, and images not published elsewhere—and a few surprises as well. Plus we have a fabulous piece on […]
Lizzie and Montel Update
SPOOKY SHOWCASE: Lizzie Borden’s Bed and Breakfast owner to be featured on talk show Lee Ann Wilber appears on “The Montel Williams Show.” By Jay Pateakos GateHouse News Service Tue Oct 30, 2007, 12:31 AM EDT FALL RIVER — On Halloween this year, the legend of Lizzie Borden will be shared with a few million […]
Haunted Dimensions Meets Lizzie Borden
CGI artist Ray Keim, has a super great site called Haunted Dimensions, where he offers 3-D works of art of haunted mansions, including the Lizzie Borden house at 92 Second Street. Read all about how he creates his 3-D projects, mansion themed graphics, paper models, and mansion illustrations. Amazing! He also did the graphics on […]
Lizzie Borden Meets Montel Williams
Lizzie Borden house topic on ‘Montel Williams Show’ October 29, 2007 6:00 AM Fall River resident Lee-Ann Wilber will be a guest on the Wednesday episode of “The Montel Williams Show” devoted to haunted houses. On the show, psychic Sylvia Browne will explain the reported paranormal activity at Ms. Wilber’s Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, […]
Another Inside Maplecroft Photo
Actress and playwright Jill Dalton, who wrote and stars in Lizzie Borden Live, a play about Lizzie’s life at Maplecroft, spent a lot of time studying the case. She was granted access to Maplecroft and posted a photo on the site for her show. Very Kewl! Thanks Jill! Actress Jill Dalton in the foyer of […]
New Lizzie Borden B&B Website
Take a gander at the new look of the Lizzie Borden B&B website. I think it is much improved over the last one. I hate web sites and blogs that have music on them that turn on just by clicking on them. This site was designed by Richard Behrens, filmmaker, author, and web designer. Here […]
American Ballet Theatre Presents Fall River Legend
A truly important American ballet is Agnes deMille’s Fall River Legend, where she tells the story of Lizzie Borden through dance. The American Ballet Theatre is presenting a production of this great work from October 23 to November 4, in NYC. Tickets are now on sale. Kevin C. Murphy’s blog, The Ghost in the Machine, […]
Dickie Does Jack the Ripper
Would you like to take the COMPLETE Jack the Ripper tour in London? Well, someone taped it for you and here it is in 12 parts. It is fascinating! Ripping Yarns Ltd, the original and authentic Jack the Ripper started giving guided tours around Whitechapel in 1992, for many years we have gained knowledge and […]
Dunn & Powell Mystery Catalogue #4
Greetings, Mystery Lover. We are pleased to announce that our new Mystery Catalogue 84 is available for download. You may view or download the catalogue here: (plain text) (html for maximum compatibility – illustrated) (pdf – you need the free Adobe Acrobat software – see link at our website) Catalogue 84 features over 1100 items […]
Miss Lizzie Borden Invites You to Tea in NJ
Marjorie Conn’s one woman show Miss Lizzie Invites You to Tea is being presented in Fair Lawn, NJ this October, starring Karen Asconi. The press release is below. This sounds wonderful! Wish I could go. Buy Tickets here. (FAIR LAWN, NJ) — Boz and the Bard Productions, Inc. presents “Miss Lizzie” at the Fair Lawn […]
Nance O’Neil Photos Found Online
The NYPL has very recently updated their digital image collection online and lo and behold added quite a few photographs of actress Nance O’Neil, famous friend of Lizbeth Borden. There are 24 images and they were found by Kat Koorey as she searched for interesting images related tangentially to the case. She is posting half […]
Legend of Lizzie Borden
Every once in a while someone posts the entire film of Legend of Lizzie Borden, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. This made for TV film is the only movie (non-documentary) made of the case and is considered a classic. This one is on Google and is downloadable. So hurry, before it is removed, as all of them […]
Andrew and Ann Borden
A site that gives the top ten of about every topic you can imagine, has the Borden murders on the list of Top 10 Unsolved Crimes. For such a brief mention, there are multiple errors, not the least of which includes the name of one of the murdered (Ann) and the assumption (wrong) that Lizzie’s […]
Lizzie Borden Lecture
On October 31, 2006, Karen Elizabeth Chaney, author of True Crime in New England: Lizzie Borden gave a lecture on the Borden Murders at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, MA. It was filmed by WGBH and is available as an audio file, a video file, or an MP3 download. Here is Karen’s 40+ […]
Man Hands Lizzie
It all started when DAN DUNN COLLECTIBLES of Buzzards Bay, MA (capecollector on eBay) labeled this person as Lizzie Borden. Since then, this person has appeared in YouTube movies, <a href="on eBay, websites, and goodness knows where else! Please be aware that experts agree that this woman is not the accused hatchet murderess. The Fall […]
Jack the Ripper — Ripper Notes
If you are into other true crime cases like I am (especially Victorian ones), I highly recommend subscribing to a Jack the Ripper journal tltled Ripper Notes: The International Journal for Ripper Studies. I cannot get enough of this informative, interesting, and well crafted magazine. Editor Dan Norder does a yeoman’s job at pulling together […]
Fall River Mystery
In the latest Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine are two pieces related to the topic at hand—Lizzie Borden. One is a new work by James T. Shannon that takes place in the Portuguese-American community of Fall River, Massachusetts. I have read the story and note that while the author changes the names of locations around town […]
When Lizzie Borden Isn’t Lizzie Borden
There is a well designed blog whose author uses the name Lizzie Borden. She doesn’t write about the case, Fall River, Victoriana, or anything true crime. She doesn’t even write about other Lizzies —-the director, the rock band, the pornographer. Instead, she uses the name to present a persona of sorts from which to creatively […]