Season 2

June 5, 2023

The Inquest of Dr. Seabury Bowen, Including 2 Excerpts from The Knowlton Papers

Dr. Bowen was summoned shortly after Lizzie Borden discovered the body of her father, Andrew Borden, dead in the sitting room with his head smashed open by a hatchet. Shortly after Doc Bowen arrived he encountered several w…
Nov. 24, 2022

The Inquest of Emma Borden

Emma Borden, the older spinster sister to Lizzie Borden gave her inquest testimony to District Attorney Hosea Knowlton sometime during August 9-11, 1892 less than a week after the murders of her father and stepmother. The te…