Lizzie Borden Had an Axe (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Director:

Dean Alioto

Writers:

Jesse Evans (writer)
Gary Parker (writer)

Release Date:

2004 (USA)

Genre:

History

Plot:

The murder of Lizzie Borden's Mother and Father undergoes a forensic investigation - on this Discovery Channel special.

Cast

Michael Martins	...	Himself - Fall River Historical Society
Tom Lange	...	Himself - Homicide investigator
Thomas P. Mauriello	...	Himself - Professor of Criminalistics
Stefani Koorey	...	Herself - editor / publisher
Kat Koorey	...	Herself - assistant editor
Bill Pavao	...	Himself - museum curator
Bill Masterton	...	Himself - author
Leonard Rebello	...	Himself - author
Michael Vitullo	...	Himself (as Dr. Michael Vitullo)
Steve Dowell	...	Himself - Research criminologist
Stephen Kane	...	Himself - psychologist (as Stephen Kane PhD)
Lark Oxler	...	Lizzie Borden
Cheryl Finlayson	...	Bridget
Bob Emery
Linda Monchik

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

Morningstar Entertainment

Using modern forensics for a century old crime

Tends to be a bit graphic at times but there is an advisory before the program commences and coming back to it from each break.

Tom Lange, who headed the investigation in the O.J. Simpson case and who is now retired, brings police logic to the crime. He's assisted by many experts in various fields of forensics including that of psychological forensics.

They find physical evidence and get a chance to "reunite" (if, indeed, they'd met before) the hatchet head with the scarf worn by Abby Borden, Lizzie's stepmother.

The actual home, now a B & B, was used for the various conjectures on how and by whom. The reenacts really got into their roles.

By the way, I wonder why, on other films recommended, "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" which starred Elizabeth Montgomery, wasn't one of them.