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The Case Of Lizzie Borden

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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. I have done enough research to know that there are three reasons why Lizzie didn’t commit this hideous crime. There were other people home at the time of the murder. The night before the murder John Morse, the uncle, showed up unexpectedly. In her statement to the police, Lizzie was outside at the time of the murder, so she wasn’t in the …show more content…

The night before the murder John showed up at the Bordens' claiming to visit a sick friend. The weird thing about this is he brought no luggage at all (The New York Herald 3). If John was visiting a friend why wouldn’t he bring any luggage? He lived quite a few hours away from where he visited. Why would John just unexpectedly show up at the Borden house without letting them know in advance? Mr. Borden and John once owned a casket-making business with each other. The business broke apart after John moved (“Suspect in the Borden Case,” John V Morse). The most simple answer to why this has anything to do with murder is jealousy. After the casket business, Mr. Borden became a little bit more wealthy than John, that would've been enough motive to want to murder …show more content…

Lizzie claimed to be in the barn looking for stuff for a trip she was planning on taking (Inquest Begun 2). Investigators checked the barn and found that there was no dust covering the lower part of the barn. This means that someone was in the barn because if there wasn’t anyone in there then the dust would have been covering the floor. Lizzie’s alibi checks out. Bridget claimed to be upstairs cleaning windows around the time of the murder (The New York Herald 3). It’s kind of weird because she told the police she didn’t hear anything, not even the sound of a fall by Mrs. Borden. Mrs. Borden’s body was found upstairs in the guest room. Guess what? Bridget was also upstairs. What a

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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.

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The most plausible theory is Lizzie Borden the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Borden who allegedly murdered them. To start with, Samantha M. Gavin, a full-time lecturer in Administration of Justice, describes her past relationship with both her father and stepmother,¨Lizzie's relationship with her father and stepmother was unstable¨(Borden, Lizzie 1860-1927). The morose and unstable relationship between Lizzie Borden, her Father, and her Stepmother possibly was the motive for the killings. After the police came, the bodies were found. In an interview with Lizzie Borden, they noticed it had been strange that she showed no signs of grief, and remarked a snarky comment when speaking about her stepmother (Mooney).

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Morse was not the biggest fan of Andrew. Rumors say that Andrew Borden and John Morse got into a huge business argument regarding the loose of money Morse suffered in the two’s livestock venture. Morse thought that his nieces deserved electricity and a more high-class life than what they were given. On the day of the murders, John Morse allegedly left the home and returned to the murders of Andrew and Abby. When he returned he gave the police the exact names and information of all 6 strangers and 2 horses he met during a trolly ride.

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This information pointing towards this does feel incomplete as it is not the full story. It does, however, provide new information on why Lizzie may have a vengeance against him and new information on what Abby thought about the illness the night before the murders. It could have very well been someone else who didn’t like Andrew trying to get revenge in both incidents. “Just before the murders occurred, the entire family fell ill. Since Mr. Borden was not a well-liked man in town, Mrs. Borden believed foul play was involved.”

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A greater extent of the suspicion turned toward Lizzie, because her older sister, Emma, was not home at the time of the murders. Investigators found it weird that Lizzie knew very little of her mother's location after 9 A.M. when, according to Lizzie, she had gone "upstairs to put shams on the pillows. " They also found questionable her story that, at the time in which Andrew Borden was killed in the living room, Lizzie was in the backyard barn "looking for irons" for a forthcoming fishing excursion. The barn loft place showed no footprints on the dirty floor and the suffocating heat in the loft appeared likely to intimidate anyone from spending a few minutes searching for equipment that would not be used for days.

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I think that Lizzie borden is guilty because of these reasons. Her stories were all over the place and the details were always different. There was no scuffle or any kind of trying to fight back between either of them. The rooms were clean after the murder. How could anyone clean up so quickly without being caught?

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The Borden house was unusual, originally designed as a duplex. In July 1892, the sisters both departed on a trip for an extended visit to their friends in other towns. Lizzie, however, cut her trip short and returned home early and alone. This is when Lizzie was believed to start acting strangely. One day, Lizzie had tried purchasing a poison which she claimed she needed to “clean her fur coat.”

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Although the police found an ax head and a cylindrical stick in the flames at the Borden house they were not able to connect either to Lizzie and later they lost the hatchet handle altogether (King 27)(Howard). This left them with no hard evidence since they did not use their newfound “forensic techniques” to the extent they are used today (Tooley). Then if that didn’t blow the case out of the water this sure did. Lizzie Borden was the only person they prosecuted for the murders, they didn’t even take the first suspect, John Morse to court. No one was questioned, asked to give alibis, nothing.

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The fact is, on Thursday, February 17, 1692 Bridget was only scolding them. The girls were chasing her cat around the yard when she was trying to feed her cat. The next day, Friday, February 18, 1692, the girls were throwing their scraps on Mrs. Bishop’s path. The girls said that Bridget

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Other suspects include his second least favorite friend Mr. Green. Mr. Green and mustard are both friends. They also, did not like Mr. Boddy that much. So, they both have had stuff that was found in the victim's room. Then we have miss scarlet who actually wasn’t even friends with Mr. Boddy she hated him.

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Instead of the blood being around the body’s it would most likely trail from the stairs where Mrs. Borden was killed and then the route to where Mr. Borden was. Then again Lizzie’s hair would be splattered with blood, and blood stains, and is very difficult to get rid of if there was no blood spotted on her at all. Then she couldn’t have possibly done this, yet many still think she could have cleaned up. She had a very limited amount of time to get cleaned up if she really did this. Plus back in those days it took awhile to straighten up unlike now a days where you can slip on a shirt, pants, socks and shoes, and call it a

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Lizzie along with Bridget Sullivan where in the house, Bridget along with John did not get questioned. According to article #3 14 reasons to believe Lizzie murdered her parents suggests that “ It looked like an inside job. Police found no signs of forced entry into the Borden home.” Even though this article is why she did murder her parents it provides some very important facts. There was no sign of forced entry that means some inside could have done it, so who was also in the house, Bridget.

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In addition, despite the validity of investigators when they claim that Bridget Sullivan committing the crime,they miss the mark when it comes to the truth because all of the evidence points to Lizzie. As a matter of fact, Lizzie burned a dress with ' 'paint ' ' on it after the murders(Burning That Dress, 1893). This shows that Lizzie most likely committed the crime because it may of not been paint. Futhermore, detective make sence when they say Emma had nothing to do with the murders, but Lizzie and Emma could have planned their parents death to get their father 's inheritence. In fact, the hatchet used in the murders could not be found in any local hardware-

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On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden, Lizzie's father and stepmother, were brutally murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lizzie was the only other person in the house at the time of the murders, and she became the prime suspect in the investigation. The prosecution argued that Lizzie had a motive for the murders, as

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It is speculated that the marriage between Andrew and Abby was done out of convenience rather than love. Many believe this to be true due to Andrew Borden (a humble but wealthy man) bought Abby and her family a charming and secure house in a wealthy part of town. While the Borden family lived on a lower middle-class street in a humble home. As soon as the Borden sisters heard of their father buying a house for the Whitemore/Gray family they began to despise Abby and felt as if their father cared more about Abby. A surviving member of the family told interviewers that they “always felt they thought they were above me” (Dziedzic).

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