Lizzie Borden's Murders

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” The grisly murders of Andrew and Abby Durfee Gray Borden remain to be one of the most sensational double murders in American history, rivaling even the likes of the O.J. Simpson trials. The “Lizzie Borden took an axe” rhyme is supposed to chronicle the macabre accounts of the murders. However, the rhyme possesses several historical inaccuracies. Lizzie’s “mother” in this rhyme was actually Lizzie’s stepmother and was “only” struck nineteen times with a hatchet not with an axe. Lizzie’s father, Andrew, received about ten blows to the head ( ). Though the children's rhyme is not quite historically accurate the

“Was Lizzie Borden Really Innocent” The number of kids that kill their parents is unbelievable. They usually have a motive. Lizzie Borden didn’t.

Lizzie Borden was a suspect in the murder of the Borden parents which were killed with an ax in August of 1892, they lived in a greenhouse in Maryland in the town called fall river. Although she was not convicted of the murder of Andrew and Sarah Borden. I think lizzie borden killed her parents and this is why.There was many weird things about lizzie borden.Why would she kill her own parents? Her dad was very wealthy and her stepmom was greedy but if her father died she would inherit what would now 7 million dollars and she felt like she owed it to her real mom, who had been “replaced” her stepmom after her mom's random death. She had some weird behaviors before the murders and after. Before her parent's murder, she tried to buy poisonous acids for cleaning the house and they found one of her white dress with inconsistent dark red spots that were hidden in one of her drawers.In this case none was arrested but 2 people including lizzie were tried.Why wasn't Lizzie Borden or anybody else arrested, Lizzie was not arrested because she was just Sunday school teacher, so the court thought that a teacher of Jesus would never do such a thing and, she had a clean record.

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, when she had saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one. Teachers always say they never thought it would be that kid. Lizzie Borden was accused of killing her father and stepmother out of the hate she had for her stepmother Abby. She was arrested in 1893 and was found not guilty a few days later. Some people think she didn’t murder both of her parents, but I think she did.

The Bordens Murders Unsolved Two people dead. No murderer found. One broken axe. Lizzie Borden is guilty of murdering her parents because she burned a dress that the court asked for as evidence, she said she was in the barn but she lied, and when Mrs.Borden was killed the murderer was still in the home to have killed Mr.Borden a few minutes later.

¨Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks after she saw what she had done she gave her father forty one.¨ The issue here is that Lizzie Borden was guilty and justice was not done in court. Lizzie should have been locked up and charged for both murders that she was accused of doing. Lizzie Borden is guilty and should be charged with both murders.

The research paper I am conducting is on Lizzie Borden who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892 with a hatchet. Due to failed investigation and lack of technology at the time, Lizzie was released and acquitted of all charges. In this paper I will point out what the police did not do properly during the investigation, as well as what I would have done differently.

The legal system works well even if people criticize it and say that it is flawed and invalid. Some cases might be hard to understand and hard to solve at first, but in the end, most cases get solved. People claim that the wrong people get arrested because the legal system does not correctly do its job. Most cases are actually solved with the correct verdict. The Trial of Lizzie Borden was a confusing court case with many factors that did not add up at first, but eventually, everything did. Lizzie Borden was guilty. In Fall River, Massachusetts on August 4 , 1892, the Borden family’s maid, Maggie Sullivan discovered the bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden. The maid was resting in her bed upstairs after cleaning and heard Lizzie Borden, the

A little over a century ago an atrocious double murder was committed, in the two-half story house at 92 Second Street, in Fall River, Massachusetts. This crime shocked the city of Fall River, as well as the nation, as Lizzie Borden, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher, went on trial for the murder of her father and her stepmother. (Augustine). An all male jury eventually acquitted her on the accusations.(Aiuto). To this day, the murderer of Andrew J. Borden and Abby Gray Borden is still unknown, but in the public mind everyone believes it was Lizzie Borden.

“Women cannot be murderers.” Even though this was not explicitly stated in the newspapers, The Boston Herald in its article “Lizzie Borden” conveys the perception that the feminine ways associated with women would make it impractical for women to commit murder. Lizzie Borden, a young lady accused of brutally killing her stepmother and father with multiple blows to their heads with a hatchet was described as a religious, sincere, and modest human being in The Boston Herald’s article covering Lizzie’s life before and after the murders. During Lizzie’s youth, she suffered from isolation because of her reserved personality and belief that nobody appreciated her presence, but in womanhood turned her life around and attain friendships who vouched for her good character during the time of the investigation. The Boston Herald’s article “Lizzie Borden: Her School and Later Life - A Noble Woman, Though Retiring”, successfully persuades the reader of Lizzie Borden’s innocence with the focus on her femininity through diction and logic.

“Fact has been suppressed by fiction, and the fiction is much more interesting to a lot of people.” Lizzie Borden, a thirty-two year old daughter of Andrew Borden and step-daughter of Abby Borden, was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. Lizzie Andrew Borden was innocent. She did not kill her father and stepmother for a number of reasons. Lizzie Borden was innocent because there was no physical evidence, she wasn’t nervous during the investigations, and there was no reason for her to kill them. Lizzie Borden was an innocent, desolate woman who deserved better than being accused for a serious case. Lizzie Borden did not injure her father and stepmother for the same reasons you wouldn’t kill your parents.

It is best described by the closing arguments for Lizzie Borden's defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson:

The Relationships of Lizzie Borden Relationships are imperative part of our lives. The connections we have with are families differ from the connections with friends, teachers, and strangers. Relationship is an emotional or other connection between people (Dictionary.com). Love being a major part of relationships, which brings me to one of my older sisters. She is like my best friend; I tell her everything and always go to her for advice.

In a world where showing a bit too much shoulder was forbidden, came Susan Glaspell. Glaspell was an American playwright, born in the cruel times of oppression. This influenced women’s opinions on certain subjects which caused them to be silenced by fear of rejection from society. “A Jury of Her Peers” was based on an era where women felt as though it was unreasonable to speak up if they felt it was not absolutely dire. Harboring these pent up feelings could cause a person to act antagonistic. Minnie Wright was an example of this. She killed her husband and was subjected to the judgement of her peers. As the group investigated Mr. Wright’s death, there were two stories unraveling. The in depth explanation that the women figured out and the simplistic version the men had seemed to pick up (Glaspell). People would benefit from reading this story to begin to understand the struggle of what this and other women had gone through. Penn Manor American Literature students would benefit from having Susan Glaspell’s story “A Jury of Her Peers” in their curriculum because of how she expressed feminism through her writing at a time when it was new and discouraged; her ability to emphasize the themes with her settings and characters; and her literature that follows a protagonist that navigates through a sexist world.

Have you ever been so angry you thought about killing your parents with an axe? Well many people think Lizzie Borden did this exact thing. Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her step mother and father with a hatchet on August 4, 1892. While on trial, the jury found her innocent, but many other people think her to be guilty. I think that Lizzie Borden is innocent of the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden because she loved her father, didn’t have a problem with her stepmother, and there was no physical evidence found at the crime scene. Lizzie Borden was found innocent by law, so why should it be questioned?