UPDATE 9/3/2010 ON HANDLELESS HATCHET BY HARRY ON LB FORUM. I MUST SAY I AGREE WITH THIS. “Harry Age: 18 Zodiac: Aquarius Joined: Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:28 pm Posts: 3751 Location: South Carolina The time here is: 7:06 pm Status: Offline PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: Reply with quote That [...]

In her Will, Lizzie Borden left much of her estate to her cousin, Grace Hartley Howe and her closest friend, Helen Leighton. But there are 21 other specifically named individuals to whom she left other real estate, personal property, jewelery, and/or money.  It’s always a rewarding challenge to find out more about who the lesser [...]

The prosecution team in the matter of the Commonwealth vs. Lizzie Andrew Borden included the formidable William Henry Moody, whose stellar career surpassed all others associated with the case.  An extraordinarily handsome man, in my opinion, he remained a life-long bachelor. If Lizzie continued her reading of Harper’s Weekly, she may have seen the December [...]

Have you been wanting affordable copies of Len Rebello’s Lizzie Borden Past & Present? And have you been on the hunt for the Fall River Historical Society’s The Knowlton Papers? Well, you’ve landed in the right place. Central Police Station, where the Preliminary Hearing was held. But first, have you been looking for a free [...]

I’m traveling in upstate New York (Hyde Park & Albany) doing some research…no time for blogging. But I’d like all my readers to check out Shelley Dziedzic’s blog for an excellent article on the guy I think Lizzie Borden had a crush on. Als0 a new pic of Dr. SEABURY BOWEN! Click HERE. Great sleuthing [...]

(Recycled Post) It’s curious to note that the sisters signed the below Deed on the very same day, January 31st, 1910, although they had been separated for well over 4 years.  Emma had packed her belongings and moved out of their French Street house, “Maplecroft”, in late May of 1905.  If they both appeared before [...]

Fall River Police Chief John M. Souza On the wall of the Administrative offices at the Fall River Police Department are these photographs of the past City Marshal’s and Police Chiefs. Rufus B Hillard – City Marshal – 1886-1909 (top left) John Fleet – City Marshal – 1909-1915 (bottom left) (Change from City Marshal to [...]

UPDATE (August 4, 2009) “Stop and go no further!” cried the spinster. “But I am for Truth, Justice & the American way!” bellowed the blogger. (LMAO) ************************** By clicking the “Preliminary Hearing” page above, you can read the entire transcript of this proceeding in the Lizzie Borden case, absolutely FREE. You can also cut and [...]

The first book to be published on the Lizzie Borden case was right after her Trial in 1893 by Edwin Porter, a reporter for the Fall River Globe and a chum of some of the police officers who provided some inside information. The first edition, the original, is not easily found and when it does [...]

Dr. William Andrew Dolan The autopsies of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were conducted one week after the murders – August 11, 1892, in the “ladies waiting room” at Oak Grove Cemetery.  It is the structure to the left in this picture postcard below. Here is a more contemporary view:The little building is now used [...]

For those who have been following the litigation between Donald Woods, co-owner of the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast/Museum in Fall River, MA, and Leonard Pickel, operator of the recently opened “True Story of Lizzie Borden” exhibit in Salem, MA, – the case is expected to be settled out of court today. This result was [...]

At the time of the Lizzie Borden case it was speculated that a jury would not convict because of the abysmal result of the last female hanged for murder – one Bathsheba Spooner. But Spooner was N0T the last female executed in Massachusetts prior to the Borden case. While much is often made of Bathesheba [...]

Arthur Sherman Phillips wrote the impressive 3-Volume History of Fall River and was a junior attorney assisting on Lizzie’s defense team. The case haunted him all his life and he never gave up on the belief that she was innocent. As late as June 3, 1939, he wrote to Homans Robinson (1894-1973) of the Robinson-Donovan [...]

Note:  See comment by “Fiz” below. “Did Lizzie Borden Dispose of the Murder Weapon By Dropping it in the Privy of the Borden Barn?” by Faye Musselman “I am not at all satisfied that any such search has been made for the weapon as absolutely to exclude the presence of it somewhere on the premises. [...]

Back from 4 days in San Francisco where I hooked up with the couple I met last year in Andover, MA at a Raytheon conference. They have a villa in Florence where I’ll be staying with my son, his fiance and my friend in Quincy, MA while they stay at my house in Payson enroute [...]

I’ve been in Fall River the past 2 days and will be here nearly a week staying at the B&B doing my usual research jaunts to environs near and not-so-near.  My buddy Carl and his wife Linda, whom I met in 1989 and live in Swansea, went with me to Oak Grove cemetery around 9 [...]

Jun. 29th, 2007     George Dexter Robinson Blue Flo Plate of Gov. Robinson 3X Governor of Mass. private collection of Faye Musselman Headed Lizzie’s defense team On loan to Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast   from South Coast Today April 14, 1998 “By Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal-Bulletin FALL RIVER — In a locked [...]