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Lizzie Borden Murder
Lizzie Borden Could a Lizzie Borden really have taken an ax and ended her parents lives committing a double murder, its been 120 years and this is still a continuing question? On August 4, 1892 a double murder was committed. Abby Borden was discovered dead upstairs and her husband Andrew dead downstairs. Both were axed to death in a matter of minutes. Officially the case is unsolved but what is known is that in 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts a Murder escaped from justice. In the Lizzie Borden controversial court case, the innocent verdict correctly acquitted Lizzie borden because she had no motive, not enough time to commit the act, and was wrongly accused. Lizzie Borden did not have a motive to kill her father. This was a huge murder …show more content…

“Lizzie Borden cared for her father very deeply,” Martins said. “There was a tremendous outpouring of grief in the letters, and that’s a new side to the story” (Katrandjian). Unlike what is commonly known Lizzie and her father actually had a very good reaction ship. He gave her lots of money so she would have had no reason to kill him. The court made Lizzie and her father Andrew into monsters because they needed someone to blame for the murders. Lizzie Borden did not have time to commit the murder and then change cloths before the police arrived. Lizzie borden would have been wearing an elaborate out fit that would of had blood on it if she had committed the crime. There was a small spot of blood on her dress but if she would did committed the murder, there would have been way more blood on her dress. Who ever kill Lizzie’s parents left that house covered in blood. “It was the woman who as the social representatives of their husbands showed the world how sorrowing the family was by wearing clothes and following little rules that reflected this” (Weston). In the year of 1892, fashion showed wealth and power. That day Lizzie would have been wearing a cotton dress, with tight sleeves and puffs that extended almost horizontal from the shoulders. A hooped

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