Did Lizzie Borden Commit Murder?

	Furthermore, the prosecution never proved the weapon was an axe. When Officer Mullaly asked if there were hatchets in the house, Lizzie replied with, "Yes, they are everywhere." Bridget and Mullaly went down to the basement and found four hatchets: one rusty claw-headed hatchet, two that

It seems obvious that Lizzie Borden did not kill her parents but did try to from the poison she had bought. Lizzie didn’t actually buy the poison, but she had gotten the maid to go out to get it. Lizzie got the maid to get it by saying she had to get it so she can get stains out of her dress. The poison was an acid named Prussic acid. Lizzie used the acid to slowly poison her parents. Why did Lizzie wanted to kill her parents is her getting payback. For example Lizzie and her sister Emma never got along with her stepmother, and they kina didn’t like their dad at thetime as well. No one rally liked the Borden family most of the town didn’t really liked Andrew and his shady business. Furthermore Andrew Borden was known as

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” The grisly murders of Andrew and Abby Durfee Gray Borden remain to be one of the most sensational double murders in American history, rivaling even the likes of the O.J. Simpson trials. The “Lizzie Borden took an axe” rhyme is supposed to chronicle the macabre accounts of the murders. However, the rhyme possesses several historical inaccuracies. Lizzie’s “mother” in this rhyme was actually Lizzie’s stepmother and was “only” struck nineteen times with a hatchet not with an axe. Lizzie’s father, Andrew, received about ten blows to the head ( ). Though the children's rhyme is not quite historically accurate the

3. In “In Cold Blood”(1965), a nonfiction novel, Truman Capote accounts for the murder of the Clutter family, residing in Holcomb, Kansas, and the events that followed. The mode of development includes Gothic themes and motifs to make the audience question the roles of the protagonists and the antagonists, “Uh-huh. But you’ll have to kill me first”, said Perry to Dick when he proposed to rape Nancy Clutter; Capote also juxtaposes between different time periods to make the audience question what had really happened in the Clutter household. This work of “new-age journalism” continually asserts that Perry killed the Clutters, although scant evidence is produced. Capote’s target audience is the people who are part of the criminal justice system and psychologists. Capote is trying to prove that all people are inherently benevolent, but when they have had traumatic events occur in their past, they have injured psyches, thus attempting to explain the formerly inexplicable murders.

On August 4th, 1892, a horrific murder took place. On that day, a young woman named Lizzie Borden was accused for murder, but some think she is innocent. I believe Lizzie Borden is guilty. She did not have good relationship with her step-mother, there were no signs of anyone trying to break into the Borden home, and she was lying about where she was when the murder occurred, she said she was outside in the backyard but there were no footprints or anything to prove she was. Lizzie Borden is guilty and here are 3 reasons why.

The double murder of Andrew and Abby Borden still remains unsolved. The police could have done a better job investigating and the evidence showing Lizzie being linked should have been enough to charge her but this is a period of time when forensics was at its infancy and if there was no weapon there was no crime. The money involved could have brought rise to Lizzie to plot the death for inheritance. We will never

“Fact has been suppressed by fiction, and the fiction is much more interesting to a lot of people.” Lizzie Borden, a thirty-two year old daughter of Andrew Borden and step-daughter of Abby Borden, was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. Lizzie Andrew Borden was innocent. She did not kill her father and stepmother for a number of reasons. Lizzie Borden was innocent because there was no physical evidence, she wasn’t nervous during the investigations, and there was no reason for her to kill them. Lizzie Borden was an innocent, desolate woman who deserved better than being accused for a serious case. Lizzie Borden did not injure her father and stepmother for the same reasons you wouldn’t kill your parents.

Overall, Lizzie Borden was found inncoent in court and no matter what people think she is innocent. She loved her father, didn’t have a problem with her step mother, and there was no evidence found at the crime scene to prove her guilty. Lizzie was very upset after her father died, she didn’t have a reason to kill her

In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Minnie Foster Wright is the main character, even though the reader never sees Mrs. Wright. The story begins as Mrs. Hale joins the county attorney, Mr. Henderson; the sheriff, Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters; and her husband in a “big two-seated buggy” (188). The team men are headed the Wright house to investigate Mr. Wright’s murder. Mrs. Peters is going along to gather some belongings for Mrs. Wright, who is currently being held in jail, and Mrs. Hale has been asked to accompany Mrs. Peters. As the investigation is conducted throughout the story, the reader is given a sense of how women were treated during this time and insight into why the women ultimately keep evidence from the men.

Lexie dean 2/17/17 7th per. Research paper Title: Lizzie Borden, an axe Murder? Lizzie borden an axe murder? Seems unlikely.

with her dad for no reason. The day before the murder happened Lizzie tried to

of passion because although her confession pointed to premeditation, she later wrote a letter to

Once the public believed that Frank was the killer, there was no turning back. The police and court had to make sure the evidence lined up to prove him guilty in order to prevent public uproar. For example, bloody fingerprints were found on the victim's jacket, but there is no indication that they were ever analyzed. Also, a trail in the dirt along which police believed Phagan had been dragged was trampled and no footprints were ever identified. The police feared that if this evidence did not line up against Frank, it would have caused a public uprising. Another suspect, Jim Conley (see p. ) never had his shirt tested for blood because he said he had been drunk and away from the factory the day that Mary was killed.

Though set in entirely dissimilar countries at different points in history, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ and Hannah Kent’s ‘Burial Rites’ possess significant comparisons. Both for instance, are fictionalized historical novels following the tribulations of a female protagonist convicted of murder and both have been widely acclaimed for their incredible literary style which merges classic poetry, epigraphs, folklore and historical articles with fiction. The most striking parallel between each novel that can be drawn, however, is the way in which authors masterfully craft the stories of untrustworthy, cunning and deceptive criminals to elicit sympathy from their audiences. Readers of the novel and secondary characters alike are gradually pulled into sympathising with ambiguous and untrustworthy female leads, Grace Marks (Alias Grace) and Agnes Magnusdottir (Burial Rites). Despite the heavy suspicions of others and a lack of evidence to support their claims of innocence, these characters present artfully manipulated features of their defence stories to provoke empathy, sympathy and trust from those within the novel, and those reading it.

The grisly axe murder of two people go unsolved. Many people think Lizzie Borden was the killer of her dad and her stepmother, evidence was found that proved her guilty but she was never found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Many believe it couldn’t have been her based off her upbringing and her clean past. However many people thought it was impossible for anyone else to murder the two, based off the information given by the people in the household at the time. Lizzie Borden was the murderer her father and her stepmother, regardless of upbringing.