Lizzie Borden Research Paper

The murder of Lizzie Borden’s father, Andrew borden, and her stepmother Abby Borden has been an ongoing mystery over 100 years now. No one has seemed to figure out the real murderer. A main suspect that the police had interviewed was Lizzie borden, the daughter to Andrew Borden and step daughter to Abby Borden. Yet no one has seemed to figure out the real murderer. I believe Lizzie borden murdered her parents with having satisfaction that she covered it up so well.

Lizzie’s relationship with her stepmother was very iffy, she not only did not call her mom, she refused and got mad when Abby was referred to Lizzie as her mother. It was shown that Abby Borden was murdered first, which Lizzie could have done then realized what could have happened to her when her father found out so she planned murdering her father an hour prior to actually doing it and she covered both up very well. In the “Inquest testimony of Lizzie Borden,” it explains how lizzie did not want to, like it, and refused when people called her her mother. Though it is normal that stepchildren don’t call their stepparents by mom/dad,

She did, Lizzie Borden murdered her parents, then got questioned, and then burned a dress that she claimed was ruined by “paint stains.” Although Lizzie could have burned the dress because of paint stains, why would she be worried about burning dresses when who she claimed to be the best father ever just died? Lizzie would of course be devastated if her father had died so why would she be burning dresses right after the murder happened. Lizzie could have easily lied and said the dress was burned due to paint stains, but if that was the dress she murdered her parents in it would have gotten blood on it and that’s why she wanted to get rid of it. The police said it was a destruction of evidence. If Lizzie killed her parents and did not want to get caught, burning the evidence was the easiest way