This Week Back Then
This Week Back Then
Portland State University History Department
Oregon’s Lizzie Borden | Unfaithful, axe-wielding killer, or mentally unstable and abused wife?
3 minutes Posted May 5, 2017 at 7:44 pm.
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In this episode, listen as Mike Mata chronicles the life of Oregon’s first murderess, Charity Lamb after she murdered her husband, Nathaniel, on May 13, 1854. Some say she was abused, some display her as a cold blooded killer, regardless, Charity was convicted for the murder of her husband and sentenced to hard labor. After listening to this episode, what do you think?
More at:
http://www.publichistorypdx.org/2017/05/07/oregons-lizzie-borden-unfaithful-axe-wielding-killer-mentally-unstable-abused-wife/