Lizzie Borden: Murderer or Misunderstood?. August 4, 1892 The house on Second Street in Fall River...

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Lizzie Borden: Murderer or Misunderstood?

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Page 1: Lizzie Borden: Murderer or Misunderstood?. August 4, 1892 The house on Second Street in Fall River with the barn in back. This is exactly how the house.

Lizzie Borden:Murderer or Misunderstood?

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August 4, 1892

The house on Second Street in Fall River with the barn in back.This is exactly how the house would’ve looked like from the street on this date.

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Lizzie Borden

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Andrew Borden

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Abby Borden

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Emma Borden

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John V. Morse

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Bridget Sullivan

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The Autopsy

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The Autopsy

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Motives

• Potential abuse in the past

• Caught in affair with Bridget

• Money

• Residual anger and resentment

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Argument: Lizzie would’ve been covered in blood when police arrived

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Argument: Lizzie had an alibi

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Argument: Fearing the unknown assailant, Lizzie barred her

windows in the years following the murders

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So, why the innocent verdict?

• The omission of the prussic acid evidence

• The omission of the inconsistent alibis

• The Victorian jury could not believe that a gentlewoman committed such a crime.

• Regardless, the people of Fall River considered her guilty, and she was shunned from most activities for the rest of her life.

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List of sources

• http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/CrimeLibrary/SequenceofEvents.htm

• http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mlizzieborden.html

• http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/borden/index_1.html

• http://www.lizzie-borden.com/• http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/

ftrials/LizzieBorden/bordenhome.html

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Good Books for Further Reading

• Lizzie: The Story of Lizzie Borden by Frank Spiering

• Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden by David Kent

• Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, and the Final Chapter by A.R. Brown