Maybe her ghost is afraid of a retrial? :waitasec:
It is somewhere about this time that John Morse returns to the house for lunch. Seeing the commotion in the yard, street and surrounding the house does he rush in to see what happened? Not right away! He stands in the yard eating a few pears before going in...Why? Did he already know what happened? Why was he so seemingly unconcerned?
One policeman gets the idea of taking pictures to "preserve" the crime scene....some of the very first crime scene photos....
When questioned about his whereabouts at the time of the murders, John Morse gives his statement about visiting relatives on the other side of town and proceeds to give the badge number of the trolly car conductor/driver a MULTIDIGIT number....how many people would notice and REMEMBER SUCH A LONG NUMBER if they didn't have reason to? He then leaves to send a telegram to Emma to get her to come home...
The neighbor/doctor somewhere in here, gives Lizzie drugs, I believe it may have been laudnum to calm her nerves. All of her statements given to police that day were after she was medicated....which may be a legitimate reason for the different versions of her statements as to her whereabouts at the times of the murders.
The bodies of Abby and Andrew were autopsied ON THE DINING ROOM TABLE! Their stomachs were removed and tied off with string and sent off to a professor at either Harvard or Yale to see if their times of death could be determined by the digestion of the stomach contents. The bodies are then removed.
A hatchet is found in an ash bin in the basement with a broken handle. It seems to have been recently broken and cleaned. There is a small amount of blood and hair on the hatchet. It is taken into evidence.
Emma arrives home, John Morse leaves, and Lizzie's friend Alice Russell comes to stay with them IN THE HOUSE!
At the funeral, the medical examiner arrives to REMOVE the HEADS of both Abby and Andrew for further examination. The bodies are then buried without their heads.
I really think that there were a lot of factors that contributed to the family dynamic that was "poisoning" to Lizzie's character. I think the fact that her father cut off the gas to the house and made them use oil lamps, sold the horse and carriage, and to me...seemed to dominate the women in the house totally and utterly, I really think this caused Lizzie to repress a lot of feelings.
I am a medium, as in yes, I see dead people, can pick up on energies and the like. I went to the house not long ago...and while I can't back up my theory with actual evidence, I can tell you my impressions of the house. I didn't pick up much actually related to the muder surprisingly enough. The feeling that overwhelmed me, that made me sick to my stomach and gave me a headach was OPRESSION. Total oppression. I did NOT expect that when I got there. I thought the murders/death would "slap" me in the face but they didn't, it was the opression of Andrew/the father. You know when you walk into a room after 2 people have had an arguement and the air feels all thick and even if the people are not talking, you can tell that they had been arguing? That's what the house felt like to me, except it was so much stonger.
I just "feel" that there was more to the Andrew domination of the family than just words. I just have this gut feeling that at some point one, if not both of the girls had been molested in some way or abused. I think in such a society where "marrying" girls were ones that were "pure" that possibly this is why neither Lizzie or Emma ever married. Sort of like they were "tainted". I think this gives great weight to your comment about them being "asexual".
If you look at the layout of the house, the room known now as "Lizzie's room" that opened directly to the Master bedroom, was originally Emma's. I also read that when Emma had the room, the door was not blocked. It was only when Lizzie got older that she traded rooms with Emma, Emma moving into the smaller room and Lizzie taking the larger room that connected with their parents room. It was only after Lizzie took this connecting room that the door was then locked and blocked with a desk. Since Lizzie is generally regarded as the one with the stonger personality, I sincerely believe that she was trying to protect her sister from their father.<snip for brevity>.
I haven't seen it. The last Lizzie movie I saw was the Christina Ricci thing. I see this one stars Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart. I'm not a fan of Kristen Stewart, but I like Chloe Sevigny. I'll wait for Netflix or whatever. Did you watch it, Stan?The film LIZZIE came out about a week ago; has anyone seen it?
I haven't seen it. The last Lizzie movie I saw was the Christina Ricci thing. I see this one stars Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart. I'm not a fan of Kristen Stewart, but I like Chloe Sevigny. I'll wait for Netflix or whatever. Did you watch it, Stan?
The film LIZZIE came out about a week ago; has anyone seen it?