In chronological order: Jack the Ripper – 1888: First psycho-sexual serial killer came replete with the most evocative nickname ever and an unsolvable identity… Lizzie Borden – 1892: America’s first feminist eschewed poison and hacked her way to personal liberation via financial independence… Hall/Mills – 1922: The “Minister and the Choir Singer” was a juicy […]
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JT’S Top 10 Lizzie Borden Case Mysteries
Even when you know Lizzie was the killer, plenty of mystery remains in the Borden case. I speculate about each item below – but the answers remain elusive. 1. What were John Morse and Andrew talking about Wednesday night? Morse didn’t coincidentally stumble into a double homicide – his presence and Emma’s absence set the […]
Every Good Mystery Has A Wild Card
Armchair detectives are always looking for what I call “prime constraint circumstance”…a fact that everything else must be filtered through…an immovable object and/or irresistible force that assumes priority over all others. And it’s usually something that you never see coming…a blindside hit to your carefully constructed scenario. I like to excavate these tingling minutiae that […]
Abby Borden’s Wedding Picture
Sometime after moving into Maplecroft, Lizzie Borden sent her murdered stepmother’s personal effects to her half-sister Sara Whitehead, including Abby’s wedding picture. Author Robert Sullivan found the picture in 1972 in the Providence apartment of Abby Potter, Sara’s daughter and Abby’s niece. It showed a smiling and slender Abby Borden in her wedding gown – […]
The Myth of the Boston Strangler
Albert DeSalvo, the alleged Boston Strangler, was never arrested, charged, tried, or convicted for murdering any of the 14 victims attributed to the killer. The only evidence against DeSalvo was his own confession, a confession spawned by greed and rife with errors…the same errors that were erroneously reported in press coverage that was scrutinized by […]