Best Unsolved: Jack the Ripper… There are more books about the unknown fiend with the killer sobriquet than every United States president except Lincoln. Best Getting Away With Murder: Lizzie Borden and OJ Simpson… Both of their juries were biased in favor of the defendants and were not emotionally capable of convicting. Most Wrongly Convicted: […]
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JT’s Top Ten Murder Cases
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 […]
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 – […]