In the early morning of August 4th, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered and mutilated in there home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Their daughter, Lizzie Borden was the suspect in these murders and mutilations. She was arrested 7 days after the murders on August 11th, 1892. However, a jury found her not guilty after she went to trial.
Her trial, which started 10 months after the murders, was lead by what towns’ people called the “dream team” of lawyers. The jury had 12 men on it that believed that she was not guilty because after they showed her the skull of her father in court, she fainted, and because she was a girl. They thought that no girl was capable of committing such a crime.
During the trail evidence was shown that
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However, the day leading up to the murders and mutilations Charles Gifford and Uriah Kirby witnessed a man watching the Borden household around 10:30 p.m. on the 3rd of August. No suspects names was ever released.
In the end, people in the town seem to think that Lizzie got away with the murders and mutilations all because she was a girl. People from around the town thought for sure that she was guilty and from that point on nobody from the town accepted her. Even the judge thought that she as was a suspect and guilty, but the jury said
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Lizzie and Emma ended up living together for a short time. Eventually Lizzie moved out into her own home.
Someone ended up purchasing the home and turned it in to the Borden Bed and Breakfast along with a museum. The most requested room in the house to stay in is the room where Abby Borden was murdered and mutilated. Today, thousands of people visit the Borden bed and breakfast yearly to see where these gruesome murders had taken
	What makes the Fall River murders so confusing is that the motive, the weapon, and the opportunity for such a crime are all absent. They found no money or jewelry missing, not even small amounts of change were taken in the daytime break-in at the Borden home a year earlier. The home had been locked up as usual, the maid Bridget Sullivan-an Irish immigrant, 26, that had been working at the household since 1889-was washing windows, and daughter Lizzie was inside the house reading a magazine. Even if both were involved for some reason in this shocking crime, what became of the blood so conspicuously missing from the bludgeoned corpses?
On August 4th, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts one of the most influential crimes in history was committed. Lizzie Borden allegedly killed her father and step mother by hacking them to death with a hatchet. It is confirmed she murdered her step mother Abby first. While Abby was changing the sheets in the upstairs bedroom Lizzie is alleged to have come into the room with Abby, Abby looked up seen her then proceeded to continue what she was doing. Lizzie then took the hatchet out from behind her back and hit Abby once in the back with the hatchet then after Abby fell to the ground, and continued to hit her till she couldn’t hit her anymore. She then moved on to the living room down stairs where her father Andrew Borden was napping on the couch after running some errands in town. According to court records Lizzie came up struck her father repeatedly in the head and chest
Lizzie Borden was indicted on December 2, 1892. Her widely publicized trial began the following June in New Bedford. Borden did not take the stand in her own defense and her inquest testimony was not admitted into evidence. The testimony provided by others proved inconclusive. On June 20, 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders. No one else was ever charged with the crimes.
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First, a reason why Lizzie Borden is guilty is that Lizzie was being questioned about a dress that she wore the day of the murders, they said blood was found on it and they needed it as evidence, so they asked her to bring it the next day, instead of doing that, she burned it, because she knew there was blood on it and she didn't want to be found guilty. It is possible that she burned it before they told her it was evidence, but her sister later said that the day she was told it was evidence, she burned it that very night.
Specifically, during the court trial, Lizzie had fainted when she saw her parents skull (Hewitt 3). That’s when the majority started to doubt that Lizzie had the guts to murder her parents. At this point in time, the defense team had argued saying that Lizzie wouldn’t have enough time to clean the scene and herself after the murder (Helena 7). In addition to this, the defense team had said that Lizzie couldn’t have committed the crime and that she was a rather loving person that was very close to her parents (Gavin 2). Moreover, “In the eyes of the law, Lizzie Borden was not responsible for the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden” (Hewitt 3). This could conclude that with the way Lizzie acts makes it seem as if she was innocent and couldn’t have committed the
Lizzie Borden is guilty no doubt. Who else would do it. The first reason why is because she was outraged with
¨Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks after she saw what she had done she gave her father forty one.¨ The issue here is that Lizzie Borden was guilty and justice was not done in court. Lizzie should have been locked up and charged for both murders that she was accused of doing. Lizzie Borden is guilty and should be charged with both murders.
On August 4, 1892 at 92 Second Street in Fall River Massachusetts, stepmom Abby and father, Andrew Borden were slaughtered by an axe in their home (“The Trial of Lizzie Borden”). Lizzie’s biological mother died in 1862, and her father Andrew remarried the spinstress, Abby Durfee Gray. Since it was a stepmother to be murdered, it raised the question as to if Lizzie really liked her stepmother. Abby's body was in the guest room, murdered an hour before Andrew, who was on a sofa. Lizzie, their daughter, was first suspected then convicted based on the evidence. A year later she was pronounced innocent. What really happened will remain a mystery because someone’s word on what happened could easily be altered and the
Both Hannah Mary Tabbs and Lizzie Borden were perpetrators of their crimes. They both committed murder. Even though there is no proof that either one committed their violent acts of mutilating their victims, there is enough circumstantial evidence that these women should have been sentenced to life in prison. But since they were both female, the judges, and juries were more forgiving.
One of the most key suspects was Lizzie because she disliked her stepmother, Lizzie also would receive her father's money. In addition, Lizzie had lots of people pointing the finger at her many people believed she planned it in advance (Katz 9). Also, cops found a blade covered in ash, “A hatchet had been discovered in the basement of the Borden home, but its blade was clean and the handle had been broken off (Maranzani 2).” Lizzie could have broken and cleaned the handle off the hatchet, and changed her dress in 8 to 13 minutes (Katz10). Based on the evidence provided it makes the most since that Lizzie Borden was in fact the murderer.
Who killed Andrew and Abby Borden on that frightful morning? On August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were killed gruesomely, which was identified by a hatchet. There were only two people in the house when the incident happened. Bridget Sullivan, the maid, and Lizzie Borden, the daughter. The time, clues and Lizzie’s alibi all tied up with her being the murderer of Andrew and Abby Borden.
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