Lizzie Borden and Unsolved Mysteries
Here is a blast from the past. Unsolved Mysteries on the Lizzie Borden case. Of course they take the paranormal route, not the unsolved murder route. This show added to the whole belief that the house is somehow haunted. From episode #462, first aired 7.23.2001. Enjoy.
Lizzie Borden Website Gets a Makeover
LizzieAndrewBorden.com has undergone a makeover. Gone are the dark colors and high contrast backgrounds, replaced by an upscale classy look that is sure to delight. The site is the preeminent Lizzie Borden website—and contains the most comprehensive collection of Borden facts, essays, document downloads, and discussions on the Internet. Disclaimer: this is a post of […]
Lizzie Borden on Everyday Paranormal
According to JeffreyJustice.com, the website of a psychic medium, Everyday Paranormal will be broadcasting from the Lizzie Borden House on September 25. Along with Liz Souza, Justice will be doing the live broadcast at 8pm EST. “Everyday Paranormal, hosted by Jeffrey Justice and Liz Souza, airs live each and every Thursday at 8 EST and […]
Lizzie Borden and Scariest Places
An ABC Family series called Scariest Places, hosted by Linda Blair, and featuring the narration of the woman who was the psychic on Poltergeist (Zelda Rubenstein). They send a family to a supposed haunted location, armed with cameras, to experience the place. Mostly what they get are a lot of scared people screaming as they […]
Lizzie Borden and Ed McBain
The late great Ed McBain had a theory about the Lizzie Borden case and he detailed it on a show called Case Reopened. Here is his idea of who did what to whom and why.
Lizzie Borden Mini Movies
GardenBay Films has collected in one place all of their Lizzie Mini Movies. You can see them for yourself here. Kudos to filmmaker Richard Behrens for the project and to all who participated in the movies. They are really fine works!
Lizzie Borden and Creepy Comic Book
A Very Creepy Blog (yes, that is the name) posted on September 2 that a comic book called “Creepy” once published a Lizzie Borden story called “Reasonable Doubt.” As far as I can tell, the issue was published July 1967. There are lots of copies out there on the Internets—so you are bound to be […]
Haunted Lizzie Borden
I put together a short film that includes a bunch of different haunted/scary lizzie clips that have made it into video or TV. They are introduced before each clip. Some are funny, some sad, some scary. You decide which is which!
Boston Globe Covers the Lizzie Borden Lawsuit
As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are soon to be several prominent stories to be published concerning the to-do between Fall River and Salem. The Fall River Herald News ran their piece on Tuesday and early this morning the Boston Globe posted online the piece that will run today. There is still another […]
Modern Forensics and the Lizzie Borden Case
This clip is from the Discovery Channel’s 2004 documentary titled “Lizzie Borden Had an Axe.” In this short piece, Professor Thomas Mauriello and Detective Tom Lange (of OJ Simpson fame) examine the handleless hatchet and Abby’s scarf. This video is meant as a tandem to the outstanding essay by Kat Koorey in the latest issue […]
Lizzie Borden News Pieces Slated for Next Week
Two pretty big news pieces on the lawsuit between the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum in Fall River and The True Story of Lizzie Borden in Salem are slated to run next week, one nationally. The Democratic Convention and the hurricane coming to the Gulf Coast have held them up. MondoLizzie will report them to you here […]
A Memory of Lizzie Borden
In Edmonds, Washington, the Driftwood Players will present a new play about Lizzie Borden entitled “A Memory of Lizzie” by David Foxton. • 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24-26, “A Memory of Lizzie.” Transport back to Victorian America and glimpse into Lizzie Borden’s childhood, the woman who allegedly took an axe […]
AP on the Lizzie Borden Lawsuit
Another example of the truth of old cliche “Don’t believe everything you read.” Today’s AP story. Unfortunately, the AP gets is wrong! The Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum is not suing over the Borden name, but the word MUSEUM. Hmmm. Maybe they get other stuff wrong too? . . . . . Mass. businesses battle over Lizzie […]
USA Today Today on Lizzie Borden Lawsuit
Read all about it! Mass. businesses battle over Lizzie Borden legacy. One thing of note in this retelling . . . . Fall River is described as “a hardscrabble fishing community 80 miles south of Salem.” Sounds quaint. But this is a new one! Repeat after me . . . hardscrabble fishing community . . […]
Lizzie Borden Live’s Schedule Announced
The new one-woman show, Lizzie Borden Live, written and starring Jill Dalton and directed by Jack McCullough, has a nice assortment of performances lined up around the nation. Perhaps they are coming to a theatre near you! Sunday Sept.7, 2008, 3:00 pm 78th Street Theatre Lab, 236 W. 78th St.,NYC,Between B’way & Amsterdam Sunday Oct. […]
New Lizzie Mini Unveiled
Filmmaker Richard Behrens has done it again . . . he has created another wonderful little film that focuses, this time, on an experiment that was done at the Lizzie Borden B&B/Museum in May where a group of case studiers tested the time that it would have taken Bridget to run from the Borden house […]
Lizzie Borden’s Museum Expected to be Tacky, According to Arizona
In a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic, a Chandler resident voices her opinion that a new museum devoted to true crime artifacts, like the Lindbergh killer’s electric chair, is in bad taste. She bases her views on being the “adult child of a convicted murderer.” She tries to make her point in […]
New Images from Inside The True Story of Lizzie Borden
WBUR in Boston ran a story about Salem’s True Story of Lizzie Borden today. They provided a link to some great images on Flickr taken from inside the facility. Love the skulls! Love the grave monument. Looks fascinating to me!