Accused: The Elizabeth Andes Murder Case

The night of the murder Amanda called on her aunt to come pick her up and they burnt the clothes she had

Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her stepmother nineteen whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father nine plus a killer one. On a hot August 4, 1892 at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, a cry came from the daughter of Andrew and Abby Borden; Lizzie Borden. Her cry attracted her neighbor Adelaide Churchill next door, so she went to Lizzie’s house. Immediately the body of Andrew Borden, Lizzie’s father, was found. A few minutes after authorities came investigating Andrew’s body, the family maid Bridget brought Adelaide with her to check upstairs for Abby, and they found out that Abby was also dead. She lay in a pool of blood and the blows from her head were dark, so she died before her husband. After the investigations of the two victims, police questioned Bridget, Emma, John Morse and Lizzie. The most suspicious suspect turned out to be Lizzie because of her change in alibis, her dress and her presence at the time being of the murders.

In the years 1977 through 1986, over 300 guardians were murdered by their own kids (Heide, 1992). In Massachusetts there are roughly 124 people killed each year (Massachusetts Crime Rates, 2016). We all know that Lizzie Borden murdered her father and stepmother in her home in Massachusetts. It seems obvious that Lizzie committed this crime due to family friction, brutal weapons, and the evidence from her credibility.

Policemen called to the scene suspected Lizzie immediately, although she was not taken into custody at that time. Her sister, Emma, was out of town at the time and was never a suspect. During the week between the murders and her arrest, Lizzie burned a dress that she claimed was stained with paint. Prosecutors would later allege that the dress was stained with blood, and that Lizzie had burned the dress in order to cover up her crime.

While neutralization and differential association theory both explain the homicides committed by Ortiz, the elements of differential association provide a more in-depth explanation. Ortiz learned from a very young age what attitudes and values were viewed as acceptable by his gang affiliated parents and peers. Ortiz was jumped into the 500 Block gang when he was only eleven years old. He was the youngest member of the gang ever allowed in. Considering his role models included his father, mother, aunt and older brother, which were successful gang members, he did not observe or experience an adequate exposure to conventional norms. Becoming a gang member was part of the family business. Many generations before Ortiz served in the gang and it had became a family tradition that Ortiz was expected to carry on. His friends were also in the gang because they lived in the same housing project as he did. The housing project that the gang formed due to where Ortiz was raised. The gang thrived from the poverty and disparity that was present in the housing development.

To begin, Steve was not the lookout because he was not friends with any of the other suspects. During Steve’s testimony, he is questioned by one of the defendants, Petrocelli, and is asked if he is friends or acquaintances with any of the suspects. According to

Once Jane was arrested it took a year for her to confess to the murders. Jane even reportedly tried poisoning herself for sympathy. When it came time for trial, the jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity. In one news report they quote Jane saying “ she never would have killed all these people if she had been married and had a happy family.” Jane was then sentenced for life at Taunton Insane Hospital, with multiple suicide attempts, till her early 80’s and died in the year 1938. What lead Jane to kill is still unknown, but researchers would say it was her childhood trauma and father’s neglect and abuse that truly created this famous American serial killer (Allen, Averill, Cook, 2005).

On August 4, 1892 at 92 Second Street in Fall River Massachusetts, stepmom Abby and father, Andrew Borden were slaughtered by an axe in their home (“The Trial of Lizzie Borden”). Lizzie’s biological mother died in 1862, and her father Andrew remarried the spinstress, Abby Durfee Gray. Since it was a stepmother to be murdered, it raised the question as to if Lizzie really liked her stepmother. Abby's body was in the guest room, murdered an hour before Andrew, who was on a sofa. Lizzie, their daughter, was first suspected then convicted based on the evidence. A year later she was pronounced innocent. What really happened will remain a mystery because someone’s word on what happened could easily be altered and the

After a disastrous recital, where Nathaniel loses his temper and attacks Graham, Steve began preparing documents naming Nathaniel’s sister, Jennifer, as Nathaniel’s executor and specifying that Nathaniel will be clinically diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Upon receiving these documents, Nathaniel became enraged. He lashed out all of his anger onto Steve, pinning him against the wall, telling him never to come see him again. Steve, deeply upset by this turn of events, went to the house of his ex-wife (who also happens to be his newspaper editor), Mary Weston, to vent all of his frustrations and disappointments about what had happened with Nathaniel. Mary told him that he could not cure Nathaniel and he could do for him was be his friend. Steve resolved to be Nathaniel’s friend. He arranged for Nathaniel’s sister to fly out to Los Angeles for a visit. He also forgave Nathaniel for his what happened at the apartment. As the movie was ending, Nathaniel, Steve, Mary, and Jennifer were all seated in the audience of a concert featuring the works of

Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or persons entered a modest house in Villisca, Iowa; and beat to death with an axe, eight people sleeping in the Moore household, including two adults and six children aged 5 through 12. The killings became known as the “Villisca Axe Murders,” and are easily the most notorious murders in Iowa history as this case still remains unsolved.

I am sorry that you had to make this video and I agree and I think the police were wrong with a majority of the killings of black men and deescalation rather than escalation must be trained. The killing of Philando in my mind was a senseless murder plain and simple.

She was taken from her bed in the middle of the night, a long serrated black knife along her throat. She was taken captive for nine months, hidden in several different hideouts. Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee - her captors - threatened to kill her and/or all of her family everyday if she tried to escape. And with a thick, 20 foot cable around her ankle, connected to the trees, through most of her captivity, she couldn’t. Throughout the months, Elizabeth never doubted what Mitchell was capable of; so she never ran.

There also was another weak theory that William Heirens murdered Beth Short. Heirens was a convicted murderer already for the dismembering of 6 year old Suzanne Degnan in Chicago, Illinois. (Beth Short). Many people believe that because Elizabeth Short was found just blocks away from a Degnan Boulevard that it has some relation, but that theory is just nonsense and way too farfetched to me.

When she was just 15 years old, Elizabeth married to Ferenc Nádasdy. Three years into the marriage, Ferenc became chief commander of Hungarian troops, leaving Elizabeth to rule his land. It was during this time when she reportedly carried out her killing spree.

Upon completion of the report, it is clear that an examination of the unresolved murder is necessary. No stone will be left unturned; no avenues left unexplored. To seek justice for Marilyn Monroe and her family, an in-depth analysis must be conducted in order to break down the data and identify a possible killer.