Did Lizzie Borden Murder

Did they actually murder their husbands, children, or parents? Six woman made it all the way to the top of most famous women murderers. Should they have been accused the way they were, or should it have been different? “Lizzie Borden had an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one.” Born July 19, 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden is the daughter of Andrew Borden and stepdaughter of Abby Borden. She had one sister, Emma Borden. Lizzie’s biological mother was Sarah Borden, who died shortly after Lizzie’s birth. Andrew remarried three years later, to Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie and Emma did not have a very good relationship with their stepmother, when greeting her they addressed

Andrew and Abby had been brutally murdered by a hatchet. Lizzie and Emma’s uncle was the first accused although he had an alibi. Therefore the next accused was the family maid Bridget, though she had no motive. Lizzie was indicted on December 2, 1892. While on trial physicians were giving her drugs which in turn caused her story to change so many times from all the drugs, that anything she said was not taken seriously. A local drug store owner had said that the day before the murders Lizzie had tried to buy a poison from the store and he would not allow her, since back in that day that is how women would kill people. Lizzie during the time of her trial was found burning a dress that she claimed had a paint stain on it. Lizzie had feminists on her side saying that she was being prosecuted for no reason. Later on in her trial she had paid the ex-governor of Massachusetts as her lawyer. Lizzie Borden was acquitted on June 20, 1893. Despite being free but forever guilty, she was later charged with shoplifting in 1897. In 1905 Emma Borden moved out of the house that the sister’s

Nannie Doss was born in 1905 in Blue Mountain a small town between Anniston and Jacksonville. She is the daughter of Jim Hazle and Louisa “Lou” Holder Hazle. Doss’s biological father may or may not have been very abusive. He would keep Doss and her other four other siblings home from school just to do household chores and to work on the family farm. Doss’s first husband was Charles Braggs. The couple had four children. Two of the children died after eating breakfast one day. After being told by someone not to eat the food that Doss prepared, her husband left with their oldest and left the newborn with Doss. The couple got divorced in 1928, Doss took the two children and moved in with her parents. He was said to be the only husband Doss did not kill. Her second husband was Frank Harrelson. Harrelson won her over with poetry and romance but later, after getting married, he became a drunk with a temper. While with Harrelson she had killed her newborn granddaughter with a hair pin. Later on she tried to kill her two year old grandson. Consequently he later died of Asphyxia and she took out a $500 life insurance on him. The marriage lasted 16 years before they got divorced in 1945. He died of food poisoning soon after that. Arlie Lanning was Doss’s next victim. Doss added rat poison to one of his meals. His death was listed as heart