Lizzie Borden

“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

story about lizzie borden and if she axe murdered her parents. The topic is mainly about if lizzie borden killed her parents. A girl named lizzie borden killed her parents with a axe. Lizzie borden killed her parents with a axe and did get away with the murder and got arrested for a year since the police didn’t have evidence to know it was her. Lizzie Borden was born on July 19,1860, at Fall River Massachusetts.www.biography.com The people that got killed were Andrew and Abby borden lizzie borden's

Murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife Abby Borden became one of America’s obsessions. From the towns’ people of Fall River Massachusetts to the rest of the country, the Borden murders became the topic of interest. The case shocked the nation as Lizzie Borden- a 32 year old school teacher- was put on trial for the murders of her parents. On August 4, 1892, at 92 Second Street Fall River Massachusetts, Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were found murdered in their homes. Andrew Borden, the richest man

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

Lizzie Borden, a suspect It is August 4rth, 1892, in Fall River Massachusetts. In a house located on 92nd street, Andrew and Abby Borden are lying dead. Andrew had received 11 strikes to the head with a hatchet and Abby withheld 19. Bridget Sullivan and John Fleet hold evidential facts on the Borden case. Fleet kicked off the case, asking around about Lizzie’s motives for killing her parents. It was said that, “Lizzie greeted [Abby] as “Mrs. Borden” and worried that the

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. Lizzie Borden’s story had red flags that police and investigation should have caught on to. The first being, that when police interviewed Lizzie about

One trial. One Unsolved mystery. These are the components of Lizzie Borden’s murder case. The trial of Lizzie Borden is a complex one, but it is vital to discuss because Lizzie’s charge was dropped and got away Scott free and the murders have been unsolved for about a century. Very many people today believe that Lizzie Borden did it because she said she did not like her step mom and so went on with killing both of them. In my opinion, Lizzie is guilty because what is said in her account and because

It is best described by the closing arguments for Lizzie Borden's defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson: 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

Well many people think Lizzie Borden did this exact thing. Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her step mother and father with a hatchet on August 4, 1892. While on trial, the jury found her innocent, but many other people think her to be guilty. I think that Lizzie Borden is innocent of the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden because she loved her father, didn’t have a problem with her stepmother, and there was no physical evidence found at the crime scene. Lizzie Borden was found innocent by law

Lizzie Borden On a hot morning on august 4, 1892, Mr. Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden, were brutally murdered. A daughter of the victims, Lizzie Borden was arrested, tried and acquitted of the crime. “ She was a woman of spotless character and reputation, and more than that she was educated, refined and prominently connected with the work of the Christian church in the Fall River”(Gates 2).The town and the country were divided in their opinions of who could commit such horrifying murders