Was there a conspiracy in the infamous murder mystery of Andrew and Abby Borden? Apparently Lizze Borden continues to fascinate the public over 60 years after her death. There are web sites about her and even The Hatchett, Lizzie Borden's Journal of Murder, Mystery, and Victorian History, which recently ran an article (republished here) about one of the conspriracy theories surrounding the murder of her parents, involving a half-brother. And yes, I am guilty of participating in Lizzie Borden-abilia since during my former life as a singer, I actually sang an aria from Jack Beeson's opera on the subject.
If you want to go back even farther into the world of true crime, Tampa Bay's News10 site reported on a 350-year-old murder mystery in which a skull keeps coming back.
Fast forwarding to the present, 75 students at San Diego State University were arrested as part of a drug sting involving marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and Ecstasy. The arrestees include a young man who was just shy of finishing a master's degree in homeland security and had worked with the campus police as a security officer and also a criminal justice major who asked officers if this would hurt his chances for a law enforcement career. Hmm...ya think?
The New York Times featured an article on NYPD detective fashions. No, not another calendar, but a look at what the well-dressed detective wears these days while on a case. As the article points out, "proper fit is a matter of survival rather than vanity for men who are more likely to subdue a suspect than to peer at a computer all day." Commander Vernon Geberth explained his philosophy about wearing a suit that would at home on Wall Street, "It put me in a different mode. It slowed me down: 'Look at this guy. He is all dressed up and he is in an abandoned building.' I am here to put things back together." He added, "I was above the fray. My psychological armor."
I also left out one link from yesterday's media mayhem post, namely The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio which recently featured the ladies of the Women in Crime Ink blog who count among their members prosecutors, cops, and novelists.
