Lizzie Borden Case on Travel Channel Tonight

Tonight on the Travel Channel is an episode of “Dead Files” that centers on the Borden case and was filmed at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast here in Fall River, MA.

I have tried in the past to watch this show and I have to admit that I find it deadly dull. The way this paranormal show works is that there is a NY city detective and a psychic that each, separately they claim, investigate the location/case and then come together at the end to try to solve the investigation and share their findings.

Always excited about a new show on Lizzie Borden, I have been very disappointed with the clips I have seen thus far.

In one, the detective interviews Shelley Dziedzic, who works at the house and knows her stuff about the case. She tells the story of Abby going across the street to Dr. Bowen’s house on the day before the murders to tell him that she fears she is being poisoned. They cut her there and the camera then shows the detective’s face looking very serious and startled, like he just heard something that NOBODY has ever heard before and that this is a HUGE CLUE to solving the case.

Well, if they would have let Shelley FINISH the story, they might have learned that this complaint of being “poisoned” was quite common in that day and time, when home refrigeration was at its infancy and food spoiled. People got sick from their diets on a regular basis, especially in the summer. So much so, in fact, that this type of illness was referred to as the “summer complaint.”

Yet it looks like this detective socks this info about “poisoning” away and seems in this clip to be on to something!

Then the psychic is shown on the third floor, in a room that was a storage space in 1892, forming her impressions. She claims she senses people “throwing up” and utters the word “poisoned” very meekly, almost as if to slip it into the conversation. Of course, this comes after we have heard Shelley’s story and the importance of the word becomes underlined and magnified.

This clip is probably the one that made me laugh out loud the most. To me, it proves that these two speak to one another before they go on camera and have done some research before their visits to throw in little bits of history to make their investigations seem realistic.

The hoax is complete with just these short clips. The detective pronounces that his “GUT” tells him that Lizzie’s acquittal might just have been a miscarriage of justice and that the jury got it wrong. His gut. GodblessAmerica. His gut.

This case has been investigated TO DEATH, and nobody is able to solve it, mainly because there really isn’t any evidence to convict anyone of the crimes. And trust me, nobody’s GUT is going to solve this case either. Not when they swoop in and then swoop out of town like they did.

The show is laughable. Boring and laughable.

But you should see it for yourself. You be the judge. But know this: you have been warned!

Here is clip #1

Here is clip #2.

Here is clip #3.

Here is clip #4.

Oh, and they get some facts wrong too! And throw in the whole incest theory to boot!




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