“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.” This rhyme is not exactly accurate, but has the jist. Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their comfy home. This murder is 125 years old and is still a mystery and still rocks the media. Although it was not proven at the time, Lizzie Borden viciously murdered her stepmother and father. She was a hatred-driven assassin and had many motives to kill. One, Lizzie craved her father’s abundant money; not having received it while his living. Two, she was mentally unstable, and had a lying spree. Three, with failed attempts to buy poison (to kill?), she also had many arguments with her parents and a had a strained …show more content…
Plus, she also tried to buy poison, but thankfully failed. Was that almost the way she was going to murder? Lizzie had an argument with her parents, just one week before the murders and chose to stay in a separate home for four days. Adding on to having an argument, just a few days before the murders, Lizzie tried to buy toxins. Although the police could not present the purchasing in the trial and the idea that all families have frenzied arguments, Lizzie definitely is guilty. Conforming to the text, “Lizzie Borden: Murderess or Media Sensation,” it includes, “They did, however, establish that Lizzie had unsuccessfully attempted to purchase prussic acid, a highly poisonous liquid, in the days before the murders.” Also affirmed in the piece, “Fourteen Reasons to Believe Lizzie Murdered her Parents,” “In the week before the murders, following an apparent family argument, Lizzie and her sister Emma left Fall River by coach for New Bedford.” This proves that Lizzie, in fact, tried to buy poison days before the murders. Not being able to buy it, the only other way to murder was with a weapon. Plus, Lizzie was growing a horrible relationship with her parents. When? Oh, conveniently just days before the killings. All in all, the last reason (out of many others) Lizzie killed Andrew and Abby Borden, may have been her falling apart of a good relationship with them and her attempted murders just days before the actual