THANK YOU June for this article. It is very interesting and exciting to fans of the case! Thanks again! Autumn ... ...
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lauraannphillips2001
lauraannphil...
May 1, 2005 4:18 pm
Hi all, Forgive the grisly question, but I was browsing some Borden sites, and I read somewhere that Andrew Borden's skull is (or was) on display at the Fall...
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Donna D
nicensweet98502
May 1, 2005 5:41 pm
I thought I read that the one on display is a replica and his head was buried with his body at a later time. Maybe a grisly question but a good one. Maybe one...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 1, 2005 6:41 pm
Hi Laura: The actual heads were buried and rest on top of the caskets. Professor Starrs of George Washington University had used GPS and it showed that ...
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PatriciaLu@...
May 2, 2005 12:09 am
I enjoyed reading about the renovation too. I'm amazed that the town of Fall River hasn't embraced the story -- it ain't going away -- and I think it's good...
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Laura4991@...
lauraannphil...
May 2, 2005 7:02 pm
Thanks for the fast answer, Muriel. And I don't care what anyone says, you know this case chapter and verse, and though I respectfully disagree with your...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
May 6, 2005 4:26 am
My dear colleague Laura James ends all her posts with a quote (I wish she'd write more often). In her honor, I unearthed a gem by James Allen from his poem "As...
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Laura4991@...
lauraannphil...
May 6, 2005 1:26 pm
Well, goodness, Jeffrey, our mutual admiration society may rise to a whole new level. I've collected such a large number of quotes and true crime anecdotes...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 6, 2005 2:36 pm
Hello JT: I just couldn't let this one go by without comment. 1. "My Ain Countree" above the fireplace at Maplecroft, is Lizzie's confession. Really? Wish...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 7, 2005 2:32 am
Hey gang: I'm watching Court TV and they've been announcing that next Wednesday, at 9:00 p.m., they will be covering the Lindburgh kidnapping on Court TV. ...
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patrick
clemson329
May 15, 2005 9:35 pm
I was just wondering about something? When I was a little boy down here in South Carolina I remember girls skipping rope to the "Lizzie Borden took an axe" ...
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PatriciaLu@...
May 16, 2005 1:10 am
I don't know the derivation of the rhyme, but it is from far earlier than the 1980s. Having said that, I think it certainly contributed to the sense that ...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 16, 2005 2:21 am
Yes Patrick: A rhym repeated over and over again has a way of being accepted as fact.no matter how outlandish it is. There are some twenty books written on the...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 16, 2005 2:41 am
Hi Pat: "Lizzie Borden took an axe...", has been around for over 100 years. I believe that if you lived "up on the hill", you said "Lizzie Borden took an...
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Rev COAL
savinrock
May 16, 2005 5:34 am
The rhyme dates from the time of the trial, so it has indeed been around for some time. It's supposed to be sung to the tune of "Tah-rah-tah-boom-tey-ay",...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
May 21, 2005 9:07 pm
Muriel wrote: Lizzie had lousy lawyers, even if they wiped the floor with the prosecution's witnesses. ***This is an absurd contradiction. How could they be...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 22, 2005 2:46 am
Hi JT: I will stick by what I said when I said Lizzie was poorly defended. I found twelve people whom Knowntol had not called to testify for the simple reason...
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Rev COAL
savinrock
May 23, 2005 5:38 am
... Seems to me that most books on the Borden case have repeatedly pointed out that Lizzie wasn't considered a particularly brilliant student when she was in...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
May 25, 2005 12:41 am
June wrote: Doesn't prove that she was the murderer, only that she may have been protecting the murderer(s), or whom she thought may have done it. It also...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
May 25, 2005 12:59 am
To the group: rather than just say "whatever, Muriel!" I will play this game one more time. Please note that my responses contain specific factual...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 26, 2005 6:29 pm
Jeff: Well, you played the game one more time, but you are still wrong. Take your: 1. <As I said, Robinson never denied Lizzie tried to buy poison--he merely...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
May 27, 2005 3:56 am
Muriel, I feel sorry for you. Your credibility is shot. You sound just like Arnold Brown when he defended his"illegitimate son Billy Borden as the killer"...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
May 27, 2005 2:19 pm
Okay Jeff: As females insist in having the last word, here it is and we can call it quits. 1. <***Duh...Abby feared she was being poisoned the day before the...
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PatriciaLu@...
Jun 5, 2005 5:56 am
CBS's "48 Hours Mystery" is going to run a show on the Black Dahlia on Tuesday night at 10 pm Eastern time. From the preview I saw tonight, this is a repeat of...
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dennis
pratthoward
Jun 12, 2005 7:33 pm
i was going to post a photo in the photo section and there is no photo section!why does this group not have one??i bought a antique chalk drawing that is...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
Jun 20, 2005 12:47 am
While sifting through my Lizzie Borden Quarterly files (I have every issue), I chanced upon a poll taken of the participants at the Lizzie Borden Centennial...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
Jun 20, 2005 1:39 am
JT: More than 90% of the speakers were for Lizzie being guilty. Professor Starrs of George Washington University, claimed the handleless hatchet was not the...
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Muriel Arnold
muriella@...
Jun 25, 2005 3:47 pm
Hi gang: Just got through re-reading a copy of Miss Russell's letter to District Attorney William Moody, date 2 June '93. Her handwriting is a little hard to...
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Jeffrey Tesch
jtesch@...
Aug 6, 2005 2:58 am
Happy belated Lizzie murder day to the group! And to quickly change the subject, anyone here follow the Sam Sheppard case? Young suburban doctor accused of...
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Autumn
autumnlite
Aug 7, 2005 8:12 am
I read a book on it along time ago, it is a fascinating case. I thought that it had finally been solved and that it was determined that Eberling that did it. ...
