Lizzie Borden Podcast

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 Lizzie Borden house. He offers us his unique perspective on the case and the people involved in telling the story of the crimes.

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

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 will perform a dramatic reading of "The Forlorn Maggie." This is the first Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mystery written by Richard Behrens, and it was first published in The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies in 2008.

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

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

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 and thoughts on the Borden case.

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 Century American Newspapers and Fiction, and Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women’s Business, both published by Kent State University Press. Each book, in part, highlights the Lizzie Borden case through the lens of two renowned journalists: Julian Ralph and Elizabeth Jordan.

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 Sherlockian Anthology, comprised of essays, poetry, plays and fiction about Sherlock Holmes, another interest she shared with Richard.

The Lizzie Borden Podcast is the only podcast entirely devoted to the study of the Borden murders of 1892, Lizzie Borden, and (sometimes) the history of her hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts. Produced by Nine Muses Books and Anna Behrens. Each episode explores some aspect of the mystery that is Lizzie Borden, from the origins of the doggerel “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe,” to a primer on the case by noted authors and experts, including dramatic readings of Richard Berhens’ Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series. Please subscribe to us on Youtube so we can meet the magic number they have set for us to be able to remove advertisements, from which we see no revenue.

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 well as three works of fiction, Gallows Hill, Summerland, and most recently Senor Lugosi & Other Stories.

Rory is also a tour guide in Salem giving talks on various topics, including the witch trials. 

The Lizzie Borden Podcast is the only podcast entirely devoted to the study of the Borden murders of 1892, Lizzie Borden, and (sometimes) the history of her hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts. Produced by Nine Muses Books and Anna Behrens. Each episode explores some aspect of the mystery that is Lizzie Borden, from the origins of the doggerel “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe,” to a primer on the case by noted authors and experts, including dramatic readings of Richard Berhens’ Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series.

Lizzzie Borden Podcast, 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 LIZZIE BORDEN UNCUT A CASE BOOK OF THEORIES. It is the book every Bordenite wished someone would write. It is a critique of all the major books and legal articles on the Borden murders and covers five main areas, the books and essays about the legal aspects, those authors who believe an intruder did it, those authors who rely on conspiracy for their solution, those who believe Lizzie did it, and those who write that Bridget Sullivan was the killer. Only after all of this does Bill examine Motive and Means and gives his take on the crimes. It is an excellent read and highly recommended.

The Lizzie Borden Podcast is the only podcast entirely devoted to the study of the Borden murders of 1892, Lizzie Borden, and (sometimes) the history of her hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts. Produced by Nine Muses Books and Anna Behrens. Each episode explores some aspect of the mystery that is Lizzie Borden, from the origins of the doggerel “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe,” to a primer on the case by noted authors and experts, including dramatic readings of Richard Berhens’ Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series.

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 15: Interview with Dr. Patricia Bryan

In this episode we interview Dr. Patricia L. Bryan, co author of Midnight Assassin: a Murder in America’s Heartland, published by the University of Iowa Press.

The Lizzie Borden Podcast is the only podcast entirely devoted to the study of the Borden murders of 1892, Lizzie Borden, and (sometimes) the history of her hometown, Fall River, Massachusetts. Produced by Nine Muses Books and Anna Behrens. Each episode explores some aspect of the mystery that is Lizzie Borden, from the origins of the doggerel “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe,” to a primer on the case by noted authors and experts, including dramatic readings of Richard Berhens’ Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery series.

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 14: ”The Jennings Journals” interview with Michael Martins

In this episode, we bring you an interview with Michael Martins, curator of the Fall River Historical Society. We discuss the recently released, long-awaited book, "The Jennings Journals 1892: The Unpublished Notes and Documents from the Files of Lizzie Borden's Defense Attorney, Andrew Jackson Jennings". Edited by Michael Martins, Dennis A. Binette, and Stefani Koorey.

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 13: The Scrooge of Second Street, a Lizzie Borden Girl Detective Christmas Story

In this episode, we bring you a reading of “The Scrooge of Second Street, a Lizzie Borden Girl Detective Christmas Story,” performed by Stefani Koorey. 

Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders of her father and stepmother, Richard's Lizzie Borden pursued a career as a private consulting detective, and her beloved cousin Sarah Borden, served as a chronicler of her adventures. In this story we meet Homer Thesinger, boy inventor, Lizzie's stingy father Andrew, her jealous and ineffectual sister Emma, and Abby, her dour and stern stepmother. You have met Lizzie Borden before, but never like this.

Lizzie Borden Podcast, Episode 12: The Audible Amnesiac, a Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mystery

In this episode we bring you a reading of "The Audible Amnesiac," one of the Lizzie Borden Girl Detective mysteries, performed by Wendy Almeida.

Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders of her father and stepmother, Richard's Lizzie Borden pursued a career as a private consulting detective, and her beloved cousin Sarah Borden, served as a chronicler of her adventures. In this story we meet Homer Thesinger, boy inventor, Lizzie's stingy father Andrew, her jealous and ineffectual sister Emma, and Abby, her dour and stern stepmother. You have met Lizzie Borden before, but never like this.