Episode Seven: A Lizzie Borden Primer Part Three




The Lizzie Borden Podcast show

Summary: <p><a href="http://lizziebordengirldetective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/473px-Elizabeth_Montgomery_Katherine_Helmond_Legend_of_Lizzie_Borden_2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-794" src="http://lizziebordengirldetective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/473px-Elizabeth_Montgomery_Katherine_Helmond_Legend_of_Lizzie_Borden_2-237x300.jpg" alt="473px-elizabeth_montgomery_katherine_helmond_legend_of_lizzie_borden_2" width="237" height="300"></a>In this Episode of The Lizzie Borden Podcast we continue our Lizzie Borden Primer with Sarah Miller, the author of The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden &amp; The Trial of the Century.  For those listeners who are unfamiliar with the details of Lizzie Borden’s life and the Borden Murders of 1892, this Primer will help orient them and give them important contexts for future episodes.</p> <p>This part of the Primer covers the Preliminary Hearing, the Grand Jury Proceedings and the Borden murder trial, which was held before the Superior Court in New Bedford in June 1893 and ended in her acquittal.</p> <p>The Lizzie Borden Primer series will give  the listener a grounding in the historical facts of the Borden Murders of 1892 which have become a part of the American imagination for 124 years, listen to find out why, and form your own informed opinion  about her guilt or innocence.</p> <h3>Guests:</h3> <p><strong>Sarah Miller</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Miller/e/B002LTD1MC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft wp-image-676" src="http://lizziebordengirldetective.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Sarah-Miller_Janelle-Hamrick-Photography-200x300.jpg" alt="Sarah-Miller_Janelle-Hamrick-Photography" width="167" height="250"></a></p> <p><strong>Sarah Miller</strong> is the author of two historical fiction novels, <em>Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller,</em> which was called “an accomplished debut” in a starred review from <em>Booklist</em> and was named an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, and <em>The Lost Crown,</em> about the Romanovs, hailed as “fascinating” in a starred review from <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> and named an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults. The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden &amp; The Trial of the Century is her first non-fiction book and has been hailed by Kirkus and the New York Times as a perfectly concise and lively historical account of the Borden Murders of 1892.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sarahmillerbooks.com/Welcome.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d2ac67;">Visit Sarah’s website for more information.</span></a></p> <h3></h3> <p> </p> <h3>Credits:</h3> <p><strong>Producer: Nine Muses Books</strong><br> <strong>Engineer: Mason Amadeus</strong><br> <strong>Writer/Director: Richard Behrens<br> Music: Melora Creager</strong></p> <p><strong>Richard Behrens</strong> is the author of the Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series and the co-founder of Nine Muses Books, and host of The Lizzie Borden Podcast.</p> <p><b>Melora Creager</b> is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, performing artist and founder of the cello rock group <a href="http://meloracreager.space/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d2ac67;">Rasputina</span></a>.</p> <p><strong>Mason Amadeus</strong> is an on-air personality for 103.7 KNE-FM and Sunny 97.7.  In his spare time he makes music and short films w</p>