Was Lizzie Borden A Serial Killer

In the early morning of August 4th, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered and mutilated in there home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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-

Because they thought she was burning it because there was blood on it. Later in her jail time she was let go. Because of this she had gone to trial with 12 men. During the trial she had shown no emotions to her parents death witch had concerned the 12 men. In the trial Lizzie never took stand for the 12 men. For this reason I think Lizzie did try to kill her parents with the poison but someone else killed them, that’s why she had shown no emotions. That someone who problem killed Abby and Andrew Borden could have been the person who Andrew was having trouble with. As saying that Andrews employers has rumors that a customer did not like him and that Andrew owed him something but never gave it to him. June 20th , 1893 Lizzie was found not guilty and acuanted. Lizzie commited the crime she had done to avoid the evidence. For this reason Lizzie was found not guilty on June 20th 1893. Lizzie and Emma inhareted their fathers estate. Thry had bought a house for themselves. Emma had died 10 days later from the flu then Lizzie died 3 days later. The case had then been set for a mystery formany years, and many people has many different opinions on who killed Abby and Andrew

have a psychotic episode. She was hearing voices, she was having hallucinations, her apartment was a mess, and she not taken care of herself, and felt she was being pushed to her grave.

The research paper I am conducting is on Lizzie Borden who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892 with a hatchet. Due to failed investigation and lack of technology at the time, Lizzie was released and acquitted of all charges. In this paper I will point out what the police did not do properly during the investigation, as well as what I would have done differently.

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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.

how to make chloroform. These are the reasons why she should have had the death penalty and

First of all, Lizzie Borden would have to have a reason to kill her father, but she didn’t. One reason Lizzie Borden is innocent is

One of the significant actions that Abigail took was when she stabbed herself (“The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he drew a needle out…” - Cheever. (Miller 70-71.)) just to accuse Elizabeth proctor of witchcraft. Earlier in the story, Mary Warren handed Elizabeth a poppet (a voodoo doll) as a small gift; not knowing that this will soon put Goody Proctor in a disastrous situation. Abigail saw Mary making the doll and realized if she uses this opportunity well, that she can get Elizabeth accused as a witch. That night she suddenly falls at the dinner table and when Reverend Parris went to save her, she successfully accuses Elizabeth for damaging her. Abigails cunning yet brilliant plan worked and resulted Elizabeth being arrested just as she wished.

In the story The Crucible, Abigail is the main character in how everything plays out all because she wanted another womans man. Abby used to work for the Proctor family. John proctor being the man she wanted. John had committed adultery with Abby and Elizabeth proctor, Johns wife, found out and fired her. This is probably the starting point of the event.

Most of the research and documentation is specifically aimed around male serial killers because there have been so many. Nonetheless, there are numerous documented cases of female serial killers. In 2010, there were 356 female serial killers as opposed to 3514 male serial killers (Aamodt 4). Because there are so few female killers, there is little information about them.

Black Widows are a category of female multiple murderers. Whether they should be called serial killers is open to debate. Generally, female multiple murderers do not kill for the same sexual motives associated that male serial killers do. If one accepts a frequently proposed definition that requires sexual motivation and a murderous quest for power over another individual as the definition of the term serial

There is no indication she has had a manic or hypomanic episode. Her depression may be complicated by grief due to her father’s death one year ago. Her symptoms seem to get worse after his passing.

about her flowers and what would happen to them if she were to die. Emma bringing up