Lizzie Borden Narrative Report

Later investigation showed that this rhyme was false and that each victim was hit twenty times, not

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forty. Police were called to the scene and immediately suspected Lizzie Borden since she was the only one in the home at the time of the murders. Emma Borden was never suspected since she was out of town at the time. In an interview, Deputy Marshal John Fleet asked Lizzie, “Do you have any idea who killed your mother and father?” Lizzie responded saying, “She's not my mother, Sir. she is my stepmother, my mother died when I was a child.” During the week of the murders Lizzie burned a dress that she stated was stained with paint. Investigators later discovered that the dress was stained with blood, and Lizzie burned it to cover
up the murders she committed. Reports say that Lizzie tried to buy poison just before the murder but it was never proven. The murder weapons were never found, there was not enough evidence to prove that Lizzie Borden took part in the murder. In court Borden said, “I am innocent. I leave it to my counsel to speak for me.” Borden was indicted on December 2, 1892.