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Abby Borden Murder Essay

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In Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892, a very violent axe murder happened. Abby Borden and Andrew Borden were both struck around 20 times with an axe to the head and face. What caused these murders? No one really knows, but Abby and Andrew's daughters, Emma and Lizzie were forced to do a lot of housework. Lizzie and Emma were being yelled at constantly. Andrew was a very unpleasant, rude man. He had very high expectations that were nearly impossible. The family had a maid, but the Borden parents still insisted on making Emma and Lizzie work. Nothing ever seemed to be good enough for Andrew and Abby. Emma and Lizzie eventually grew very sick of it, but they both seemed to love to love their parents. Allegedly, Lizzie went outside to get an …show more content…

When Andrew arrived home, his key would not go in the door, so he had to knock for attention. When he asked where Abby was, Lizzie had said that she thinks she went out to visit a friend. Andrew took a nap and Lizzie went outside again. When she came back in, she went upstairs to see her father dead. She yelled for the maid, Bridget when she saw what had happened. Most people think that Lizzie had done this but she was actually outside at the time eating pears. Investigators saw no footprints in the dust, but those could've easily disappeared by the time they investigated the scene. Andrew was struck 10 times in the face, and one of his eyes seemed to be split which suggests that he was still sleeping at the time of the attack. When Bridget came up to see what had happened, Lizzie looked as if she was in shock. Bridget ran out of the house and went to go get help. For some reason she went to a doctor even though Andrew was very obviously already dead. After the police and investigators got there, they looked everywhere for evidence but found nothing. They had to do a routine blood check on Lizzie's hands and clothes just because she was on the property at the time of the killing. They didn't find one bit of blood on Lizzie's hands or clothes. If she did it wouldn't there be just a little bit of blood, maybe underneath her nails that she couldn't

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