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Are we gonna let 'em get away with this?

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Check out this article on cracked.com:

http://www.cracked.com/article_17314_5- ... facts.html

(It's the second item in the article.)
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That's unbelieveable. It made for some fine reading. Thanks for posting it.
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Finally, after 70 years ... :wink: Does anyone know when the skulls were buried? Was it immediately after the trial?
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There's so much mis-information on the Borden case, it would take a lotta time and effort (in looking up the exact info) to correct every site that did it. I don't know if it'd be worth writing to the website or writer to correct them. Sometimes a website will just ignore you for your efforts, but they might correct it and thank you.

I did enjoy the link given for "History's Mysteries" on the hatchet.

The hip bath collection contained no skull at all, whether real or a cast of one. It did contain:

- Photographs

- Hatchet and hood

- Tags from trial exhibits

- Hair switch and bloody handkerchief

- Pillow sham and bedspreads

- Newspaper clippings of the case

- Stenographer's minutes of the preliminary trial

- Blueprints of floor plans of Borden house

- Boston Globe, day-to-day record

- Boston Herald - account of trial

- Hair in envelopes

- Red leather notebooks

Source: The Legend 100 Years After the Crime - A Conference on the Lizzie Borden case - Proceedings, Edited by Jules R. Ryckebusch, c 1993, Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts - King Philip Publishing Co., Portland, ME: Pages 213,214: "The Hip-Bath Collection" by Barbara M. Ashton

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:lol: They don’t call that magazine Cracked for nothin’. It’s a sort of inferior step-child to Mad … remember them? (Taking anything written in Cracked seriously is…well, roughly akin to reading something in the old Weekly World News and wondering, “Now why was this not front-page news in today's Times?!!”)

Check out Jake Slocum's profile on the site, you'll get the idea. :wink:
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