3: Lizzie Borden w/ Joe Conforti - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892, and the accusation that sent daughter Lizzie Borden to trial, is one of the most infamous in American history. But did Lizzie Borden really give her mother forty whacks? What is myth and what is fact in this notorious murder case? Erik speaks with Joseph Conforti, author of "Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity and Gender" about the woman behind the crime.

The author's publisher page: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700620722/

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0:00.0	ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ
0:30.0	ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃə Announ ʃən ʃən ʃən
1:00.0	most of us assume she was the murderer, and on that assumption we also know she was to hatch it
1:06.4	to kill her father and stepmother. We all know that the murder happened a long time ago,
1:12.0	August 4, 1892, to be specific. But did she really do it? And if so, what motivated her to do what she
1:20.0	did? Joining me today is Joseph Comforty, a native of Fall River, where everything went
1:26.8	bound 123 years ago. He wrote a spellbinding book called Lizzy Borden on trial,
1:33.4	Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender, published by the University of Kansas, and now available on amazon.com.
1:41.4	Thank you so much, Joe Comforty, for chatting with me today. As you are from Fall River,
1:45.7	Massachusetts, which is where this most famous of American murders took place, what was it like
1:51.6	living under the cloud of Lizzy Borden all of your life? Well, Lizzy Borden has been in my bones.
1:58.0	I'm now 70 years old, and I've never been able to shake the fact that I come from Lizzy Borden's
2:05.2	hometown. In fact, that's how I came to write the book. I've written a number of books on New England,
2:11.2	and during all those years of my professional career when I was writing on New England,
2:17.6	I never gave Lizzy Borden a single thought as a possible subject for a book. But I was in Athens,
2:26.7	Georgia, of all places, having dinner with a friend who would just retire from the University of
2:31.1	Georgia, and a colleague of his came along, and the colleague happens to edit a series on landmark
2:38.1	legal cases in American society. And when he asked me what I was working on, I said,
2:44.6	well, I just published a memoir of growing up in Fall River, Massachusetts. And as soon as he
2:52.0	heard, since he heard Fall River, Massachusetts, his eyes widened, and he said, do a book for me
2:59.1	on Lizzy Borden. And that's how I came to write the book. So that's started to just illustrate
3:06.3	that if you are from Fall River, people who are ending about your city, they knew it was
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