Lizzie Borden
by Lizzie Borden is actually distantly related to me…it’s creepy. She murdered her father and step mother with an axe in Massachusetts.
“Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” So goes the famous rhyme heard all over the country about the famous Borden murders. Some say that these murders were never solved; others say that Lizzie got off easy. But regardless, this story still makes for a chilling bedtime tale.
In 1892, the Borden house consisted of Lizzie and her younger sister Emma, their father Andrew, his second wife and their stepmother Abby, and the housemaid Bridget Sullivan (who was known as Maggie by Lizzie). This rather large family lived on 92 Second Street in Fall River Massachusetts. At the time of the murders, Lizzie’s uncle John Morse was visiting them for a long weekend. He was the only friend that Andrew had. But this seemingly happy family was in reality, not happy at all. Lizzie was considered a terror by Abby, who had accused her of stealing a number of times. Also, Abby and Lizzie did not get along at all, nor did Lizzie and her father. In fact, just a short time before the double murder, Lizzie and Emma had gone and stayed the night in a nearby town.
On a hot day in August 1892, Bridget Sullivan heard a cry from Lizzie just as the clock struck 11 am. Lizzie was screaming that her father was dead and that someone had come in and killed him. Investigators found Andrew Borden “hacked almost beyond recognition”, and began looking for evidence. While they were searching the house, they discovered Abby Borden. Her body was found cold, while Andrew’s was discovered warm, which insinuated that Abby had been killed at least an hour and a half before Andrew. At the beginning of the investigation, police said that it could have only been a tall man that killed them, and by coming from behind. Then it came to attention that Lizzie might be the culprit. Police came to the conclusion that the murders had been committed within the Borden home, but were puzzled at the lack of blood and the fact that they couldn’t find the murder weapon,.
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