Crime News
There is a very cool site that collects crime blog entries and aggregates them for you in one place. It is called Crime Blog. I am going to have to read this one daily. Lots of content and easily arranged. I see you can subscribe to an RSS feed there as well. Many thanks to […]
Lizzie Causes a Sensation
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, July 24, 1893:
The behavior of guilty people
In Sebastian Junger’s new book A Death in Belmont, he discusses the 1963 murder of Bessie Goldberg a few streets over from where he lived as a child in Belmont, Mass., a suburb of Boston. Working for Junger’s mother, building an art room addition to his house, was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. He had […]
Lizzie in 1923
From the New York Times, May 12, 1923:
Lizzie Borden Walks Free Again
Back in 1997, Stanford University conducted a 90 minute dramatization of the trial of Lizzie Borden. The jury was the large attending audience and the presiding justices were Stanford alums Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist. This article is from the September 19, 1997 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly online edition, and describes the […]
Lizzie to lecture
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1893, three days after her acquittal:
Resolved Answers?!!
Ok, these are pret-ty darn bad. Read at your own risk. Not to be taken before operating heavy machinery. May cause irritability. Could dangerously affect your ability to drive or work. Not to be taken with alcohol. Can cause stomach upset and ulcers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! From ANSWERS.YAHOO.COM, voted the “Best Answers”: […]
Walt Satterthwait Speaks
On Walter Satterthwait’s site (author of the historical novel Miss Lizzie), he offers a reprint of an interview he gave to “Mystery News.” In it he briefly discusses his interest in the Borden case and how he solved it to his own satisfaction. Click on his home page and write him an email if you […]
Cheaters never prosper
You know those sites that offer, usually for a fee, essays about whatever subject you want so students don’t have to do the work themselves? You know, plagiarism? Well, there are hundreds of them out there and I recently found one that has a free, yes free, Lizzie Borden essay that is high-larious in its […]
Lizzie Says She is Innocent
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, April 15, 1893.
Butchered and Mutilated
On eBay is an interesting item: BUTCHERED AND MUTILATED. UNUSUAL MURDER VICTIMS. RARE. I’ve never seen this title before as related to Lizzie Borden but it looks like it is worth a looksee. Opening bid is $19.95, but shipping from Canada is $5.50. Only one copy is available on bookfinder, and that one is $36. […]
In a Cell Once More
From the Chicago Daily Tribune, September 3, 1892.
ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest Library has a bio of Lizzie that examines the case as well. Beware: there are a lot of errors here and assumptions made here about situations, motives, and lifestyle choices. I would like to know how they can assume so much without proof. My favorite part is when they say that Bridget has an […]
Mrs. Livermore’s Opinion
From the New York Times, September 4, 1892.
LB and the American Realists
This is the text of an unpublished talk given at a symposium celebrating Jack Beeson’s opera Lizzie Borden, presented during the1996 season of Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York. It is definitely worth reading, but it does raise a few questions: Was Lizzie’s love of animals “obsessive”? Did Emma dress in black the rest of her […]
He Believes Her Innocent
From the New York Times, August 17, 1892.
Mysterious Arrest
From the New York Times, 19 October 1892.
Miss Borden at Fall River
From the New York Times, June 21, 1893.