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In time for Halloween, paranormal and true crime writer Tim Weisberg next week discusses Lizzie Borden, accused of the infamous Borden murders more than a century ago and prosecuted by Haverhill’s own William H. Moody.
“The Haunted History of Lizzie Borden” offers an examination of the murders, the prime suspect herself and the life she lived in Fall River, both before and after the fateful day of Aug. 4, 1892. The scene then shifts to the modern-day Lizzie Borden House and a thorough discussion of Weisberg’s decade-plus of documenting the paranormal activity there. Weisberg is the host and co-creator of Spooky Southcoast, one of the world’s longest-running radio programs on the topic of the paranormal.
Lizzie Borden. (Public domain.)
Haverhill Public Library Head of Special Collections and Archives Becky Geller, will also talk briefly about the Moody papers at the library. Moody later served as U.S. Attorney General and as a Supreme Court justice. The collection, which is open for research in the library’s Special Collections, includes transcripts from the trial.
The free talk takes place Monday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m., at Haverhill Public Library, 99 Main St., Haverhill.