Lizzie Borden Research Paper

Family, they are people we tend to love the most and care for. Although we care for our families they will get on our nerves occasionally, sometimes worse than other times. There has been multiple cases of people murdering their spouses and family members, as shown on many different investigation shows. One case that deals with the murder of one's family is the Lizzie Borden case. Lizzie Borden was accused of killing her father as well as her stepmother. The Lizzie Borden case was one of America's first mass media crimes, and was one of the first cases that used modern forensic methods.

Lizzie Borden's father remarried to his new wife. Her father had promised Lizzie and her sister Emma Borden land on his farm is Swansea, but once he remarried

Lizzie cried out to Emma to come look and told her that someone had broken in and murdered their father.When police came to investigate they found on the second floor the corpse of Lizzie’s step mother Abby Borden. They found that Abby Borden’s body (Lizzie’s stepmother) was cold while Andrew Borden’s body (Lizzie’s father) had still been warm. (Linder) A couple days after the Abby and Andrew Borden’s death newspapers reported evidence of Lizzie Borden having something to do with the murder. (Linder) In the article The Trial of Lizzie Borden: An account, Professor Linder states “Most significantly, 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. A story in the Boston Daily Globe reported rumors that "Lizzie and her stepmother never got along together peacefully, and that for a considerable time back they have not spoken," but noted also that family members insisted relations between the two women were quite normal.” At this point the police knew that the murder must have been committed by someone who lived in the Borden’s household, but they couldn’t say who because the lack of blood anywhere, except on the victims bodies and the police were unable to identify the weapon used. Police and investigators believed that Lizzie Borden was the murderer because of the fact