At the second event in our True Crime Series, local authors Alison Simcox and Doug Heath will talk about Lizzie Borden and John Best: Knowlton’s Trials that Gripped Boston’s South and North Shores. Hosea Knowlton is best known as the chief prosecutor of Lizzie Borden, whose 1893 trial for the murder of her parents created a national sensation. During his tenure as Massachusetts Attorney General, Knowlton tried more murder cases than any man who had held that office. As notorious as the Borden trial was at the time, one of his last cases, the trial of John Courtney Best, also involved a horrific axe murder. In their talk, Alison Simcox and Douglas Heath will reveal the facts and bizarre circumstances of this shocking murder and you can decide whether Knowlton's famous ability to incisively question trial witnesses and present eloquent arguments ensured that justice was served. 

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