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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The Greatest Crime Scene Photo of All Time
Submission for your approval: Andrew Borden as he was found the morning of August 4th, 1892, in his Fall River Massachusetts home, after being hacked to death with a hatchet. […]
An Astrologer Looks at Lizzie Borden
This information is taken from the book “The Astrologer Looks at Murder” by Barbara Watters (1969). I was skeptical, but it has a chapter on Lizzie. Ms. Watters was the “leading […]