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Recently released photo it kinda looks like her.


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February 15, 2008 04:17 PM


(The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies)

By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

It may be a new image of Lizzie Borden: An angelic 8- or 9-year-old girl with a hint of baby fat still noticeable in her creamy white cheeks. In the black-and-white photograph, she seems proud of the feather in her straw hat and her wool coat with a satin lined collar.

That is far from the prevailing impression of Borden. Despite her acquittal at trial, she is commonly depicted as an ax-wielding spinster who got away with the murder of her father and stepmother in Fall River in 1892.

The photograph, which does not identify the girl, was found last month in the collection of the Swansea Historical Society by Stefani Koorey, publisher of ''The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies."


“I’ve been staring at her face for about 20 years,” Koorey said yesterday from her home in Orlando, Fla. “I know those eyes.”

It would be the youngest known photograph of Borden. The discovery has caused a stir at the historical society, said president Carl Becker, who is hoping the flash of notoriety will help pay for a new heater. “It’s just a photo of a little girl to me,” Becker said.

For Borden enthusiasts, it's a new window into a 115-year-old crime.

“There’s an innocence in this photograph that I have not seen in other images of her,” Koorey said. “It’s nice to see someone -- whether she was guilty or not -- before the world caved in.” 

 

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you know i'm a Lizzie fanatic LH! wow, i'm glad you posted this! i guess we'll never know if it's her, but what an exciting possibility!

i lived in Fall River and Lizzie is what inspired my fascination with crime. i've been in the house, haunted the historical society and also went to the new bedford courthouse where she was tried, to read the trial transcript. even visited the graves.

that could be any little girl of course, but it's fun to think it's her. thanks!





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Lizzie at the time of the infamous murders






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Lizzie in her teens
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Compared to the two shots that LC added, it does seem to be her.

Sometimes it is easy to forget that some of our most wicked killers were once children.
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"Lizzie Borden took an ax

gave her mother 40 whacks

when she saw what she had done

gave her father 41"

(old nursery rhyme)

this is photo of her father after attack:

 
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::shock::.....Now a couple green bananas and a cold sweat is almost guarantied tonight....::shock::
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(step)mother Abby was killed first...
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this is the house on 92nd street where the murders took place. it's currently a bed and breakfast. hopefully they don't serve cold week-old mutton stew which was the fare on the morning of the murders. ::eats::

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I am always such a stick in the mud and don't mean to be.  However, I honestly do not think that is her.

To me it appears that the shape of the brow and position of the eyes are different enough to rule it out.  Of course there will be change in a person's face between about 9 and adulthood, but the position of the eyes should not shift IMO.
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i agree...there is no provenance to suggest it is she, and there is no reason her childhood photo would be found in a house in swansea.

The discovery has caused a stir at the historical society, said president Carl Becker, who is hoping the flash of notoriety will help pay for a new heater. “It’s just a photo of a little girl to me,” Becker said.

 
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Aethelred wrote: I am always such a stick in the mud ...


I think I shall remember this about Aethelred.....

Not that I didn't already think that-- but to have confirmation is a nice sort of thing  <evil grin>




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 I just wanted to put the two pictures closer together. The nose looks almost the same but a bit longer in the second picture....:littleangel:
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here's Lizzie's grave, with its annual halloween decoration :lmao:

the little pear represents Lizzie's claim she was out in the hot stuffy barn eating pears when the murders happened. only none of the dust in the barn was disturbed.

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That would make a great avatar for a girl named Betty!

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