Edmund Pearson Bibliography on CLEWS

Crime Historian Laura James does a yeoman’s job at her blog CLEWS: The Historic True Crime Blog, offering interviews with new and important crime authors, links to fantastic article on other sites, and commentary on the state of true crime investigations and popular media. Most recently she added a few items that I know will […]

Haunted Lizzie Borden Purse Redux

The owner of the “haunted Lizzie Borden purse” is offering it for sale once again on eBay. This time it has a starting bid of $299 and a $16 shipping fee. You might not find it on your own, however. The seller spells Lizzie’s name “Lizzy Borden” throughout the auction description. This purse was given […]

Lizzie Borden Case from 1894

This is a very early mention of the Lizzie Borden case (or the Borden Trial as it was known in the aftermath). It is from The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Detroit, Mich., The Evening News Association [etc.] 1892-93; Buffalo, N.Y., Garretson, Cox & Co. This is from Vol. 3, published in 1894, and digitized […]

A Psychic Solution to the Borden Case

A new item, recently published, is now on Amazon.com. Its title is Shocking Psychic Solution: The Lizzie Borden Case (Book & Audio CD set) (Paperback) by Richard and Debbie Senate (Author), Sean Casteel (Editor). Here is the skinny according to Amazon: Review “We are all interested in the Lizzie Borden murder story. It is one […]

Lizzie Borden’s Maplecroft in the Snow today

There was a snow storm last night that hit the northeast and Fall River got plenty of the white stuff. Around an inch they say, with more to fall. So here is a photograph of Maplecroft in the snow. It looks so serene, doesn’t it?

The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History

The print copy of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History is now available. We bring you three choices for purchase: Full color, Black and white interior, or Download. Copies of all 21 issues of this scholarly journal are available through our print on demand partner, LuLu.com at this LINK. You […]

Lizzie Borden in the Orlando Sentinel

My hometown paper ran a story on me today. It is all about the Lizzie image that Len Rebello and I found in Swansea. I thought I would share. . . . . LINK.

Lizzie Borden Makes the News Continued

Today brought another slew of press, from being mentioned on CNN Headline news all day, to radio, to major newspapers across the region. The story will also appear in my hometown paper on Sunday. I have had interviews with the Boston Globe, the Fall River Daily Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, and WCVB-TV in Boston.

Lizzie Borden Makes the News

Check back during the day as I will be adding content to this same entry as it arrives. WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE CHANNEL 5 WCVB-TV NEWS STORY HERE! Well, it has happened! After all these years, Lizzie Borden has finally made the news again. The article that was printed on the front page of […]

Lizzie Borden Case in Billerica February 21st

The Lizzie Borden Case February 21st Christopher Daley, an educator/historian, presents a lecture that involves a one hour slide presentation in which photographs of all the people, places and events of the period are used to chronicle the famous double murder and the resulting trial. The progaram is in the Meeting Room of the Library […]

Watercolor of Lizzie Borden for Sale

Well . . . that got your attention, didn’t it? It got mine! When I went to the auction site, I found, to my dismay, that this image is not Lizzie Borden at all. At least not the Fall River woman who this blog is named for. Not the accused hatchet murderess. Not this lady. […]

Lizzie Borden Soil

You can now own genuine sand from the Lizzie Borden B&B, or so they say, in addition to practically any other place you can think of, all preserved in a keychain or magnet. FootWhere Link. Wholesale only.

Lizzie Borden Prayer Card

I’m not kidding. Found this on the web, of course, at this site: Pre-emptive Prayer Cards. Lizzie Borden: The Patron Saint of Dysfunctional Families.

Lizzie Borden Hooked Rug

Found this on my out and abouts. I like it a lot. Folk art looking image on a rug. Someone make me one! Only $200. From O’Lantern, Longshadow, and McCobb, Ltd. Lizzie Borden Hooked Rug The mildest, sweetest-looking silver-haired lady in gold-rimmed bifocals is sitting quietly at a booth at a smallish craft fair in […]

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 […]