Lizzie Borden
A verdict of not guilty, the insufficiency of evidence and the lack of conclusive evidence all point to as being falsely accused. Her previous job as a Sunday School teacher and the fact that she probably wasn't capable of killing her own father and stepmother all lead to the apparent outcome that was most likely not the only one possibly at fault in the Borden murders, if she was even guilty at all.
had, what seemed to others, a life that was fairly normal. The city of Fall River, Massachusetts, was, and is, full of Bordens. The Bordens were among the area's first settlers. Some branches of the family prospered, while others did not. Andrew Borden, Lizzie's father, was the son of a ...
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According to one Fall River legend, "When he was an undertaker, he cut the feet off the corpses so that he could cram them into undersized coffins that he got cheap"(Meganet, 1998 ).
Even though Andrew Borden was wealthy, the Borden family lived quite modestly in a narrow little house on Second Street.
's actual mother had died when Lizzie was just a young girl the age of two. Lizzie was born on Thursday, July 19th ,1860 in the Borden's house at 12 Ferry Street (Kent, 14). She had two sisters, both were older than her. The oldest was Emma, and the next ,Alice, who had died when Lizzie was just a baby. Abby Durfee Gray wed Andrew Borden in 1864 when Lizzie was only two years old (Porter, 23). Some of the more cynical gossip groups thought Andrew only married Abby to get a free housekeeper and baby-sitter (Meganet, 1998). The relationship between step-mother and children was doomed. Emma is blamed for starting the daughter's feud with their stepmother. By 1892, resentment had ...
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sent Bridget out to get help. Mrs. Adelaide Churchill who was the nearest neighbor and Dr. Bowen, the family's doctor, were the first to respond when Bridget went out for help (Porter, 4). To those at the murder scene is seemed that a very foul murder had been committed for no apparent reason. At this point only Andrew's body had been found, not long after the body of Abby Borden was found upstairs in guest room, wedged between a freshly made bed and a small dresser (Porter, 9). The discovery of at least one murder happened at 11:10 am. Within the next thirty-five minutes, the authorities were on the scene (Meganet, 1998).
Miss Emma Borden, who had been visiting a friend in ...
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