Lizzie Borden Research Paper

In Fall River Massachusetts, on August 4, 1892 Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. The youngest of three children, Lizzie was thirty-two at the time of the murders1. Her father, Andrew, was a well known banker in the area. Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby, had only been married to Andrew for a couple of years and did not get along well with Lizzie.
Lizzie did have a good relationship with her sister, Emma, and her father, but her closest bond was with Emma. Since Emma was the oldest she would watch over Lizzie when needed. Lizzie and her father started drifting apart after his marriage to Abby. Emma and Lizzie would live out the rest of their lives together in a cabin. Lizzie mostly kept to herself and never really was

During the trials, and the investigation, the police would question her sisters and other family members. The oldest was not at the house at the time of the murders, she was with friends when she was told about the murders. The neighbor said that she saw Lizzie standing at the doorway motionless and then yelled out that her father had been murdered and to call the police.While this happened, lizzie was in jail and waiting for her trial, while also pleading that she was innocent and did not commit the murders2. The trial finally happen on June 5, 1893 and it lasted fifteen days. During this time they were trying to get evidence that Lizzie was the one to commit the crime. Unfortunately they were unable to find enough proof that Lizzie was the one to do it. So on June 20 she was found not guilty and acquitted for the murder of her father and

Lizzie always thought that she was free and had her life back, and things can go back to normal but unfortunately she was wrong. When Lizzie and her sister received the money they bought a house on a hill. The house had all the modern texters that their family home did not. It had a telephone,new plumbing, and the servants were the highest paid in the whole town. The town wanted Lizzie to leave, fall river and rid them of her presence. They felt like she casted a shadow over them and put the town in a very bad spot. Following this Lizzie changed her name to Lizbeth and isolated herself in her home. Emma would go out and she would get questioned about her sister every time, then in 1905 Emma moved out of the home and barely spoke to Lizzie afterwards3. In one interview allowed by Emma, she defended her sister and said “Queer? Yes lizzie is queer but as for her being guilty I say no, and decidedly no.” After thirty-five years Emma sadly died at the age of seventy-six years old. As for Lizzie she stayed in fall river even after everything that happened. Lizzie mostly stayed away from the town’s people but here and there she would go into town for business purposes. Thirty-five years would pass and Lizzie would die at the age of sixty-six years