Author Topic: Classic Cases From The Past Up Until The End Of The Gilded Age ; For Comparative Purposes  (Read 2210 times)

Howard Brown

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I think only the Helen Jewett murder rates a comparison, if you're just talking about the crime itself. The other examples are domestic crimes and, although they feature axe jobs and the severing of bodies, it's not really comparable, unless you believe in Primacy of M.O.

The Guldensuppe Murder and Borden murder were comparable in terms of how sensational they were in 1897 and 1892, respectively.
I listed those to show other cases comparable in terms of public interest* and press coverage....which were present to a great degree in the Brown Murder. That's all.  I'm well aware of the types of weapons used, that two people had a hand in the Guldensuppe Murder, and that Borden walked. That was not what I meant when I said comparable.

If you had read the headers before the two cases ( Guldensuppe and Borden), you'd have understood why I put them on the thread.  I wasn't talking about 'the crime itself'.



* The press were very active from April 24th to May 7th....then a lull until May 14th/15th.....then it picked back up in late June up until July 5th, two days after the conclusion of the trial....then it went into fade out mode.
All in all, the case was front page news for approximately 25 of the 71 days ( April 24-July 3) that it lasted....from murder to verdict.
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