Lizzie Borden and Life Magazine

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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! Also of note is that the photo of the handleless hatchet on the page before the Table of Contents in the book is an unattributed photo taken by me.

The book contains many great images of important cases, and is divided into the following categories: Politics, Passion, Profit, and Pointless Mayhem. Guess where they placed the Borden case? I don’t think of the case as “Pointless Mayhem”—several people profited from the crimes. But I guess since it is officially unsolved, the editors decided there was no reasonable motive to help place it in some proper pigeonhole.

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