True Crime

[SGleason]

I recommend "Thunderstruck", which sort of clumsily ties the Crippen case to Marconi and the rise of wireless telegraphy.

Apparently EVERYONE knew when Crippen was about to get nabbed -- it was the slow white Bronco chase of the day. He was on a ship bound for the US, which was kept in ignorance of the huge media storm.

[Shanmac]

I love Erik Larson books. I'm going to check that out.

[wilbert]

livviebway said:

ihatejanuary said:

FYI -- Casebook.org does work for Jack the Ripper photos. I shouldn't have looked.

Ok, good to know. And.... sorry I linked you.

I looked too, should not do that

[octoberwitch]

I am fascinated by Lizzie Bordon. I am pretty sure she killed her parents. What is more interesting to me is why? She was a respectable, well liked, upper middle class, Sunday school teacher. Why did her sister stand by her and live with her after her acquittal? Why did her sister abruptly leave their home years later and move somewhere else under a fictious name? It appears she had lesbian affairs later in life. Is there more we don't know about?

The Black Dahlia is fascinating and very macbre. The Black Dahlia killer makes Jack the Ripper look like an amateur.

[Shanmac]

I get so freaked whenever I read about the Black Dahlia -- and see the photos. The thing that creeped me out is that the person who found her body (or at least part of her body) thought it was a mannequin lying there. *Shudder*

[freddydingo]

I am fascinated by Lizzie Bordon. I am pretty sure she killed her parents. What is more interesting to me is why?

This book is one of the best Lizzie Borden books, written by a woman who'd grown up in Fall River and saw Lizzie around town in her later years. Apparently all the townspeople knew there was something off about Lizzie - her theory is that she suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, though I think it's more likely to have been intermittent explosive disorder

[octoberwitch]

freddydingo said:

I am fascinated by Lizzie Bordon. I am pretty sure she killed her parents. What is more interesting to me is why?

This book is one of the best Lizzie Borden books, written by a woman who'd grown up in Fall River and saw Lizzie around town in her later years. Apparently all the townspeople knew there was something off about Lizzie - her theory is that she suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, though I think it's more likely to have been intermittent explosive disorder

Thank you!

[Deleted]

I am fascinated by Lizzie Bordon. I am pretty sure she killed her parents. What is more interesting to me is why?

The Borden case illustrates the need for proper diction, more than anything. See, when Lizzie went to her dad to get a quarter for some candy, he said, "Go aks your mother" and things went downhill from there.

(Sorry. Old Duke, old joke.)

[Beeelicious]

dukeofurl said:

I am fascinated by Lizzie Bordon. I am pretty sure she killed her parents. What is more interesting to me is why?

The Borden case illustrates the need for proper diction, more than anything. See, when Lizzie went to her dad to get a quarter for some candy, he said, "Go aks your mother" and things went downhill from there.

(Sorry. Old Duke, old joke.)

Bwah hah hah! My husband's older brother used to turn off all the lights and chase him around the house screaming some song "lizzie borden had an ax, gave her father 40 whacks" or something like that. Scarred my husband for life.
That's all I've got.

[prada]

I had never seen the Black Dahlia pics...Gruesome! I hope that poor woman wasn't alive when they did that to her!