The Crime Of The Papin Sisters

The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-

On Saturday, December 1, 1900, a man named John Hossack was killed in his sleep with a hatchet by his wife, Margaret Hossack. The story told by Margaret was that she had heard what sounded like two boards banging together and by that time the attacker had fled and she didn’t catch a glimpse of him. The next thing she saw was her extremely wounded husband, John, who had a five-inch cut into his head and a fractured skull. A doctor, who came and examined John, and said there was no hope and John died the next morning. As an investigation started, a burglary was thought of as the first motive but the idea flawed because nothing was stolen so the idea was quickly abandoned. In the 4 days between the murder and the funeral, the police talked to

The community’s response became more agitated as the trials continued. Those who confessed were neither tried nor sentenced. (LaPlante 138) The number of confessions only supported the girls’ accusations allowing them more credibility. Those who claimed to be innocent were hung following their trial or for one man tortured.

7 members of the “Click Clack Gang” have been apprehended for a number of crimes including “conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, drug possession, and illegal possession of firearms” (United States Attorney’s Office). Each of these seven members has a different criminal background, one in particular is a convicted felon, and will receive harsher punishment for firearm possession (United States Attorney’s Office).

“Women cannot be murderers.” Even though this was not explicitly stated in the newspapers, The Boston Herald in its article “Lizzie Borden” conveys the perception that the feminine ways associated with women would make it impractical for women to commit murder. Lizzie Borden, a young lady accused of brutally killing her stepmother and father with multiple blows to their heads with a hatchet was described as a religious, sincere, and modest human being in The Boston Herald’s article covering Lizzie’s life before and after the murders. During Lizzie’s youth, she suffered from isolation because of her reserved personality and belief that nobody appreciated her presence, but in womanhood turned her life around and attain friendships who vouched for her good character during the time of the investigation. The Boston Herald’s article “Lizzie Borden: Her School and Later Life - A Noble Woman, Though Retiring”, successfully persuades the reader of Lizzie Borden’s innocence with the focus on her femininity through diction and logic.

A little over a century ago an atrocious double murder was committed, in the two-half story house at 92 Second Street, in Fall River, Massachusetts. This crime shocked the city of Fall River, as well as the nation, as Lizzie Borden, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher, went on trial for the murder of her father and her stepmother. (Augustine). An all male jury eventually acquitted her on the accusations.(Aiuto). To this day, the murderer of Andrew J. Borden and Abby Gray Borden is still unknown, but in the public mind everyone believes it was Lizzie Borden.

In the story Cohen makes use of the most trivial murder of 1836 to show the twisted societal accommodations of those who are considered privileged, hypocritical channelled views towards sexuality and legal codes exploitation with a mingling of tabloids journalism and mere politics. In her story Cohen brings out a really sensational fact that a place for women is determined by a man.

The two women are collecting items to bring to Mrs. Wright. It is Mrs. Wright’s house that is being probed through. She is the suspected murderer. There are also three men investigating in the house at the same time. To give credit to the men, one did say, “What would we do without the ladies?” However, he did it in the same breath as accusing Mrs. Wright of being a bad housekeeper. The men leave the women in the kitchen and stop though a couple of times. During one of the passing’s the men laugh at the women. The women were wondering if Mrs. Wright was going to knot or quilt a quilt she was piecing. The men mock this query. Shortly after that, the women piece together the events that likely caused the murder. Incidentally, the women do not reveal the probable narrative to the men. Did they keep it a secret to protect Mrs. Wright? Did they keep quiet because they didn’t think that the men would believe them? Or did the women keep it to themselves for fear of being

It was May 22, 1918, and Joseph Maggio was coming home from his grocer job but he didn't know that was his last day at work. When he arrived home him, and his wife Catherine Maggio got ready for bed and he laid aside her in the bed. What they didn't know is that someone was coming for them and walking up on the corner of Upperville and Magnolia streets. When the killer broke in the Mr. and Mrs. Maggio were dead asleep and the killer crept up the stairs and proceeded to watch them until it was time. He proceeded to cut the couple’s throat with a straight razor, and when he was done he continued and bashed their heads in with an axe. Maybe in fact to conceal the fact of their real death (Axeman).

The Kray Twins were two of London’s most notorious and deadly gangsters during the 1960s. An examination of the Kray twins’ lives, criminal careers, and final downfall all help one understand how these two men dominated London’s criminal world in the 1960s.

They don’t realize that the little things do matter in solving a case like this. By “worrying over trifles” (655), as Mr. Hale puts it, the women end up finding out a lot more about the murder than the men do.

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 left hand, lying on the ground…" Strangulation is likely to have occurred in all cases as there were no screams heard. Also, the women were lying on their back when their throats were cut again, evidence from Source C proves this "…in the neck there was a long incision…" as there was relatively little blood. What blood there was mostly soaked up by their clothes. Some of the victims showed cleared sign of strangulation such as Elizabeth Stride pointed out in Source C"…the neck and chest were quite warm…" Once they were dead then the mutilation occurred of the abdomen stated in Source B of the Coroner's report"…where to the find the organs…" and this also proves that the person had skill and

In the movie M (1931) which is about a serial killer who kidnapped young girls. This movie released after the WWI in German. The killer name is Beckert who killed eight young girls without any evidence and clues because he lures the children into his confidence by candy and other such child friendly items. Then only evidence the police had was written hand-note. Then he was trying to kidnap one girl name Elsie where he bought a balloon from a blind bagger to make a friendly relations so that no one can understand his motive but he was whistling in-front of that bagger then that girls also killed by him; after that the nervousness and tension was increasing through all over the place where police and also the criminal groups were trying to find the murderer at cross purposes. The criminals were trying to find the murderer because in that time police were doing raid to all the private and unofficial lodges, hotels, and also arrested the suspicious people.

In the autumn of 1888, the murders took place in the “East End” of inner London, mostly in ‘White Chapel’. Living conditions of the people were very poor. The place was busy, crowded and full of crime. People were homeless and unemployed. People were struggling to survive