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Dec 21

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 40: Interview with Horror Writer Ric Rebelo

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 40: Interview with Horror Writer Ric Rebelo

In today’s episode we explore where the archive and the imagination meet—sometimes in productive dialogue, sometimes in open confrontation. This is a place where documents matter, facts matter, but so does the question of what history feels like once...

Oct 30

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 39: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Lizzie Borden connection

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 39: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Lizzie Borden connection

I’m joined today by Dr. C. Michael Hiam, author of Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram, a gripping new work of historical true crime. This maritime mystery unfolded off the coast of Massachusetts, just three years...

Aug 13

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 38: Sherlock Holmes and the Borden Murders

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 38: Sherlock Holmes and the Borden Murders

I’m joined today by the brilliant Anna Behrens, a devoted Sherlockian and fellow Lizzie Borden aficionado, for a conversation that explores an intriguing literary crossover: what happens when the world’s most famous fictional detective steps into...

Jun 22

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 37: Interview with Dr. Tracy Revels

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 37: Interview with Dr. Tracy Revels

In this episode, we interview Dr. Tracy J. Revels, Sherlockian, author, historian, and professor of humanities at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, about her unique approach to teaching freshmen to consider how Sherlock Holmes would have...

May 05

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 36: Interview with Barbara Van Reed and Nicole Gaudette, Samuel Slater Experience

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 36: Interview with Barbara Van Reed and Nicole Gaudette, Samuel Slater Experience

In this episode, we’re turning our attention to the town of Webster, Massachusetts, and a truly immersive museum experience that brings the past to life in a remarkable way. We talk with Barbara Van Reed who is the executive director of the Samuel...

Mar 01

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 35: Interview with Author Bruce Dorsey

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 35: Interview with Author Bruce Dorsey

In this episode, we interview Bruce Dorsey, author of the book Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime that Captivated a Nation, the story of the Sarah Maria Cornell case and its societal ramifications, including social change, the birth of a...

Dec 27

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 34: The Purloined Curio by Richard Behrens

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 34: The Purloined Curio by Richard Behrens

On this episode of the Lizzie Borden Podcast, we are pleased to bring you a reading of “The Purloined Curio” by author Richard Behrens. It is one of the earlier stories in the Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mysteries. The title is no doubt an...

Oct 27

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 33: Interview with George Schwartz, Conjuring the Spirit World (PEM)

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 33: Interview with George Schwartz, Conjuring the Spirit World (PEM)

In this episode, we interview George Schwartz, the curator-at-large for the new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, titled, Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums. Over the past twenty years, at PEM, George contributed...

Oct 03

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 32: Interview with Michael Martins

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 32: Interview with Michael Martins

In this episode we interview the curator of the Fall River Historical Society, Michael Martins, about the past few years of work at the Society and the changes yet in store. It is a fascinating look at what goes on behind the scenes at the oldest cultural...

Jun 24

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 31: Interview with Fall River Historian Philip T. Silvia Jr.

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 31: Interview with Fall River Historian Philip T. Silvia Jr.

In this episode we interview Fall River historian and professor emeritus of history at Bridgewater State University, Dr. Philip T. Silvia Jr. He has edited three books on the Victorian history of Fall River, Titled Victorian Vistas, which are considered...

Mar 04

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 30: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part Three

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 30: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part Three

In this episode we present part 3 of our interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence,...

Feb 17

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 29: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part Two

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 29: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part Two

In this episode we present part two of our interview with Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence,...

Jan 31

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 28: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part One

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 28: Interview with Dennis Binette, Part One

In this episode we interview Dennis Binette, co-author of many books published by the Fall River Historical Society, including The Knowlton Papers, Women at Work, the Fall River Discourses series, The Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence, The Jennings Journals,...

Oct 27

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 27: Interview with Bill Spencer about Bertha Manchester case

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 27: Interview with Bill Spencer about Bertha Manchester case

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...

Aug 04

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 26: The Melancholy Scion

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 26: The Melancholy Scion

In this episode we are delighted to have PeggyRae Johnson, award winning director and actor, and member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. She has multiple voice-overs to her credit, including recordings for Simon and Schuster Publishers. She...

Jul 11

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 25: Interview with Stefani Koorey about Edwin H. Porter

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 25: Interview with Stefani Koorey about Edwin H. Porter

In this episode we interview Dr. Stefani Koorey on her endeavor to raise funds to erect a marker on the grave of Edwin H. Porter, the author of The Borden Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders, published in 1893. https://gofund.me/c593b4f9

Apr 08

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 24: An Interview with Bill Pavao in Tribute to Len Rebello

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 24: An Interview with Bill Pavao in Tribute to Len Rebello

In this episode we interview Bill Pavao, history teacher, author, former curator of the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, and close personal friend of the late Leonard Rebello. This episode is talk about Len Rebello, a remembrance of sorts, an honor...

Jan 18

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 23: Interview with Ricardo Rebelo

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 23: Interview with Ricardo Rebelo

In this episode we are pleased to interview award winning filmmaker and professor of Media Studies and Screenwriting Ricardo Rebelo. Ric directed the PBS documentary Lizbeth a Victorian Nightmare and grew up in Fall River, MA, one block away from the...

Dec 22

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 22: “The Forlorn Maggie”

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 22: “The Forlorn Maggie”

Oct 01

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 21: Interview with Rory Raven about the Sarah Cornell murder of 1832

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 21: Interview with Rory Raven about the Sarah Cornell murder of 1832

In this episode we interview Rory Raven, author of Wicked Conduct, about the Sarah Cornell murder in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1832.

Sep 17

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 20: Interview with Tom Mauriello

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 20: Interview with Tom Mauriello

In this episode we interview Tom Mauriello, retired US special agent, professor of criminal justice and forensic science at the University of Maryland, and accomplished author. Tom has a unique expertise on crime investigation and offers his own theories...

Sep 02

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 19: Interview with Karen Roggenkamp

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 19: Interview with Karen Roggenkamp

In this episode we interview Karen Roggenkamp, professor of American Literature and Children’s literature at Texas A&M University (Commerce). She is the author of two books, Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth...

Aug 27

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 18: Interview with Anna Behrens

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 18: Interview with Anna Behrens

In this episode we interview Anna Behrens, author, publisher, speech pathologist, producer, editor, and widow of the late Richard Behrens, the creator of this podcast. Anna’s company is Nine Muses Books and her most recent publication is the Monadnock...

Aug 09

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 17: Interview with Rory Raven

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Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 17: Interview with Rory Raven

In this episode we interview Rory Raven about the Spiritualism movement in the 19th century. Rory is the author of three books of nonfiction: The Dorr War, Burning the Gaspee, and Wicked Conduct, about the Sarah Cornell murder in Fall River in 1832, as...

Aug 07

Episode 16: Interview with William D. Spencer

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Episode 16: Interview with William D. Spencer

In this episode we interview William Spencer, author of two books on the case. His first one, THE CASE AGAINST LIZZIE BORDEN, examines the legal proceedings (inquest, preliminary, grand jury, and trial) on a day by day basis. Bill’s newest book is titled...