In the summer of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death in their home. Andrew was discovered in a pool of blood on the living room couch, and Abby upstairs, her head smashed to pieces. After providing inconsistent answers to investigators and odd behavior leading up to their death, their daughter, Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the double homicide. Nearly a year later Lizzie is found not guilty and acquitted. What lead officials to the arrest of Lizzie had a lot to do about her behavior leading up to the murders for example, on August 3, one day before the murders, a clerk at Smith's drug store in Fall River, told police that Lizzie visited the store and attempted to purchase prussic …show more content…
Suspicion then turned toward Lizzie, since her older sister Emma was out of the home at the time of the murders. During her four hours of examination, Lizzie did not remember where she was during the day of the murder. At first she claimed that she was never upstairs but later she said she had been upstairs a few times. She upheld a frustrating police interviewee, giving confused and contradictory answers to investigators. She was home when both murders occurred, but somehow didn’t hear or see a thing. At the time of her mother’s murder (around 9:30 A.M.), her sister Emma was out of town, Andrew Borden was running errands around town, and maid Bridget Sullivan was outside washing …show more content…
They also found no footprints in the loft that could confirm Lizzie’s story. Though no forensic evidence was ever found to tie Lizzie to the crimes the clean, handle-free hatchet was found in the basement, which was the only reason it was suggested as a murder weapon. All they really had against her was her inconsistent stories, but there was no solid lead to tie her to the murders. She never testified, and like the prussic acid story, her earlier conflicting statements were judged inadmissible, partially because it was revealed she’d been on morphine, prescribed to calm her nerves, while giving them. A family friend who stayed with the Borden sisters in the days following the murders, witnessed Lizzie burning a blue dress in a kitchen fire. As Lizzie explained her action, it was because the dress had been covered with old paint." Coupled with the earlier testimony from Bridget Sullivan that Lizzie was wearing a blue dress on the morning of the murders, the evidence was enough to convince grand jurors to indict Lizzie for the murders of her
On August 11 she was served a warrant of arrest and jailed. Then the grand jury indicted her to the murders. Lizzie’s trial was located in New Bedford the following June. They didn’t claim the axe was the murder weapon. They did not find any clothing containing blood from the murder.
Who was the killer of of Abby and Andrew Borden? On August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby borden were killed due to murder. The two were murdered with a axe, Abby was struck 19 time while Andrew was struck 10 or 11 times. The bodies were both found in the house, Abby was found upstairs with her head bashed into pieces. While, Andrew was found in a pool of blood on the living room couch.
The judges who presided over the case dismissed a bloody pail and cloths that was brought as evidence against Lizzie. The police discovered the pail filled with blood, water, and cloths in the Borden’s cellar during their investigation on August 4th, 1892. The authorities claimed the bloody bucket proved the killer used the cellar to clean up after the two homicides, further incriminating Lizzie. Despite the hefty evidence, the court dismissed the provided evidence. The three judges concluded that this could have been the blood from menstruation.
“August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden are murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts.” Chery Eddy Lizzie Borden is arrested for the murder of her father and stepmother. ... Lizzie Borden was found not guilty But I think that she was. The first reason, I think lizzie borden was the murderer because of the suspicious behavior before and after the murder. A clean, handle-free hatchet blade was found in the basement, which was the only reason it was suggested murder weapon.
For example, Eli Bence, a clerk at S. R. Smith's drug store in Fall River, told police that Lizzie visited the store the day before the murder and attempted to purchase prussic acid, a deadly poison. Lizzie could use that thing and poison her father and stepmother. She couldn’t get the poison, so she kill (maybe) her father and stepmother with an axe. There was rumors that Lizzie and her stepmother never got along together
The New York Times wrote an obituary which was longer and went into great detail about the murders and the trial (Spiering 225). To this day, the Lizzie Borden case is still an unsolved mystery. Many people believe Lizzie did commit the murders but no one knows what actually happened on that tragic day in 1892. Allan Cumming put Lizzie’s feelings of being betrayed and the awful violence into a poem. “The green leaf of loyalty’s beginning to fall.
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
Lizzie had possible motives that could’ve led to the killings. For instance, many have concluded Lizzie’s father could’ve been a possible rapist towards Lizzie. No evidence or proof was ever found to prove this statement. No one actually knows if Andrew Borden was a rapist or not, they based this statement on the room and door style. Next, Lizzie could’ve been angered at the actions of her dad.
Also, Bridget and Lizzie killing Andrew and Abby Borden makes sense when they say that both had no emotions when they found the bodies but they were also angry with Andrew and Abby Borden. When Lizzie and Bridget found the bodies, Lizzie burned a white dress claim it was stained with red paint. She burned the dress in the kitchen, on the stove. However, Despite the rapidity of Herald News’s claim about how Lizzie Borden killed her parents they miss the mark when it comes to Bridget being there when the death of Andrew and Abby Borden because she was there when they were murdered. Bridget has been there for the family for a while.
During the investigation, the main suspect was found to be Lizzie because of her confusing statements regarding where she was at the time of the murder that did not make complete sense. For example, first she “stated that she was looking for fishing equipment in the barn, but then changed her story by suggesting she may have been in the yard or perhaps she was picking fruit” (Johnson 1:164). These statements by Lizzie leads to a conclusion that she was guilty of the murder of her parents. A question that was asked to her, how did she come across her father’s dead body. In response, she first said that she found her father’s dead body while coming from the kitchen; later she changed her response and said that she found her father’s dead body while coming from the living room, even after that she said that she found her father’s dead body while returning from the garage (quoted in Schuetz 70).
Police and investigators believed that Lizzie Borden was the murderer because of the fact
Borden’s body and once both bodies were found they began to search the house for evidence and take statements of the people that had been in the house that day. They were not able to find much, but they did head a hatchet in the basement. The only problem was the hatchet was clean of any blood and the handle had been broken off. After the police finished with the house, they began taking people in for questioning, to get a better understanding of what exactly happing that morning. Lizzie was taking in for the questioning for that morning, she was still shaking up form what happened, and questioning tactics back then were not sensitive to people that just experienced something traumatic.
The gruesome crime was the word going around town on August 4, 1892. The unexpected murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden was the big talk around town for days and even years after the incident. On August 4, 1892, Mr. and Mrs. Borden were found hacked by an ax in their own home. There were two people home at the time; Lizzie Borden, one of the daughters, and Bridget Sullivan, the servant. Lizzie Borden is not guilty.
Have you ever wondered, who killed Andrew & Abby Borden? Lizzie is accused of murdering her parents. It’s hard to believe that because women were proper and polite back then, but she was the only one there. Also there was no sign of force entrance. I strongly believe that Lizzie Borden is guilty, and killed her parents.
In Lizzie Borden: Murderess or Media Sensation it states that “There was no physical evidence linking her to the murders” There was no evidence that she did the murders. They didn't question anybody but Lizzie. Anyone could have done it. This just proves that Lizzie did not do