Lizzie Borden Rough Draft

“Lizzie Borden took an Ax, And gave her mother forty whacks, When she had seen what she had done, She gave her father forty-one,” is a very famous nursery rhyme. But, the rhyme is wrong, in four ways. One, the weapon was not an ax, it was a hatchet. Two, Lizzie’s mother wasn’t killed with forty whacks, but nineteen blows. Third, her father was killed with ten to eleven hits not forty one. And lastly, Lizzie Borden didn’t kill her father and stepmother. In 1891, Mr. and Mrs. Borden were killed in their home. And the killer was unknown. I believe that Lizzie Andrew Borden, did NOT murder her parents. But then, who killed them? Well that’s easy, not Lizzie. Lizzie found her dead parents so she was anxious, two weeks prior to the murders a very angry mad was in the home and in 1981, do you think your daughter could come up behind you and hit you over the head with a hatchet? Lizzie Borden Didn’t murder her parents, because how could she do such a thing.

How would you all react if you had just walked into the family room and you saw that your blood father had a big whole in his head and he was covered in blood. According to, ‘Lizzie Borden: Murderess or Media Sensation?,’ “Lizzie’s actions in the days after the murders also raised eyebrows: She gave contradictory answers to questions.” During the trial, Lizzie was medicated so heavily she most likely wasn’t totally aware so she couldn’t give the clearest answers. Most likely, she was very angry about the situation so she was not able to express all of her beliefs or describe the whole situation without telling all of her emotions. Even if people are a little mentally unstable, they don’t kill their parents, it would have to be somebody