Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Check out this article on cracked.com:

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

(It's the second item in the article.)

That's unbelieveable. It made for some fine reading. Thanks for posting it.

Finally, after 70 years ... Does anyone know when the skulls were buried? Was it immediately after the trial?

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

Kat has posted its contents on the Forum before.

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.