In this episode we interview Bill Spencer, author of the new book The Other Fall River Tragedy: The Murder of Bertha Manchester. Out now on Amazon in hard copy and Kindle, as well as the online store for the Fall River Historical Society.
Bertha Manchester was murdered by multiple blows with an ax in her home in Fall River, in the north part of the city, on Memorial Day, 1893, almost exactly 9 months after the Borden murders and one week before the jury was chosen and sequestered for Lizzie Borden’s trial. Did the knowledge of this crime affect the verdict in Lizzie’s case? Let’s investigate.