by Jason Adams
In the small city of Fall River, Massachusetts in the year of our lord 1892 the father and step-mother of Lizzie Andrew Borden were found hacked about the head and face with a hatchet until dead - the nursery rhyme says they got forty and forty-one whacks respectively but father got eleven while the late Mrs. Borden got a few more, if not quite twenty. The next eleven months after that moment, until the end of Lizzie's trial in June of 1893, were spent speaking of little else - a well-to-do lady murderess! What a lark!
The case of Lizzie has held a dark fascination ever since, inspiring countless plays and rhymes and episodes of Law & Order: Svu, but it's been an especially Borden-full couple of years now what with Christina Ricci's Lifetime-movie-turned- miniseries-turned-movie and now Craig William Macneill's feature film simply called Lizzie. Out this weekend and starring Chloë Sevigny,...
In the small city of Fall River, Massachusetts in the year of our lord 1892 the father and step-mother of Lizzie Andrew Borden were found hacked about the head and face with a hatchet until dead - the nursery rhyme says they got forty and forty-one whacks respectively but father got eleven while the late Mrs. Borden got a few more, if not quite twenty. The next eleven months after that moment, until the end of Lizzie's trial in June of 1893, were spent speaking of little else - a well-to-do lady murderess! What a lark!
The case of Lizzie has held a dark fascination ever since, inspiring countless plays and rhymes and episodes of Law & Order: Svu, but it's been an especially Borden-full couple of years now what with Christina Ricci's Lifetime-movie-turned- miniseries-turned-movie and now Craig William Macneill's feature film simply called Lizzie. Out this weekend and starring Chloë Sevigny,...
- 9/12/2018
- by JA
- FilmExperience
It’s the grisliest of children’s jump-rope rhymes: “Lizzie Borden took an ax/And gave her mother 40 whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father 41.” In reality, 32-year-old Lizzie Andrew Borden likely wielded a hatchet to deliver 18 deadly whacks to her hated stepmother Abby; her father Andrew took 11 blows a few hours later. And a jury — unable to believe a woman could commit such savagery — quickly acquitted Borden of all charges, rendering the truth of her innocence a matter of public fascination even 121 years later. Now Lifetime takes its own whack at Borden’s … Continue reading →
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- 1/9/2014
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
Ghost Lab will investigate the infamous Lizzie Borden Story on October 28. Discovery Channel's popular series Ghost Lab is back for a second season, kicking off with a sneak peek on October 19th at 10Pm (following a new Dirty Jobs at 9Pm) before settling in on Thursdays at 10Pm/Et. The Everyday Paranormal investigative team tackles the home of Lizzie Borden this coming Thursday, October 28 at 10Pm/Et. The belle of Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her mother 40 wacks. When the job was surely done, she gave her father 41. Well, perhaps. The 120-year-old mystery still remains: Did Lizzie really kill her parents? Watch to see if Brad and Barry...
- 10/15/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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