This Case has a lot of holes and history around it that even leads to ghost hauntings in the place where the murders took place, and that the a Murderer have not being found we have seen in different cases before although with DNA, some cases are being solved, however this case is or may be hard to crack with DNA since it's been 100 years Just like Jack the Ripper for exmple, however people believe the one who committed the Crimes was Lizzie Borden but was acquitted because of one reason.........She's a woman, so this is The Lizzie Borden Case from Stories of America Cards, Daily Life Section.

(Who is Lizzie Borden?)

Lizzie Andrew Borden, was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66 on June 1st 1927, just days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity throughout the United States, and along with Borden herself, they remain a topic in American popular culture to the present day, with having been depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes and are still very well-known in the Fall River area.

(The Sensational Murder Trail)

The case of Lizzie Andrew Borden, who was charged with the brutal ax-murder of her father and stepmother, was one of the most celebrated in American criminal history.

Lizzie Borden was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, on July 19th 1860, and her mother had died when she was only 2 years old, At the time of the murders in 1892, she was living in Fall River with her father; her stepmother, Abby; her sister Emma; and there Maid, Bridget Sullivan.

Now 32 years old, Lizzie Borden was still unmarried, liked doing housework, and taught Sunday School at her church.

On the morning of August 4th 1892, Borden was home with the maid when, to her horror, she discovered the Bloody and disfigured body of her Father, Apparently he had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy, sharp instrument.

A short while later the body of Abby Borden was also discovered, She had been similarly battered.

Lizzie Borden was arrested on August 11th 1892, and her trial was held in New Bedford, Masschustts, in June 1893.

The prosecutor pointed out that domestic tension had caused Lizzie and her sister Emma to avoid Mis. Borden.

Lizzie also made an attempt before the murders to purchase some highly toxic prussic acid, Moreover, there was her strange behavior on the morning of the crime, her burning of a dress three days after the murders, and variations in her statments concerning her movements.

The maid testified that when she let Mr. Borden in that morning the door to the house was locked and bloated. Also, Lizzie had accounted for her stepmother's absence by saying she had gone to visit a sick neighbor after receiving a note--but no ill person or note was ever located.

Further, a broken hatchet blade was found in the cellar which, although clean, matched the cuts on the slain couple's heads.

And perhaps most damaging, no sign of forced entry was found, This evidence suggested that the crime had been an "Inside Job".

During cross-examination, the maid admitted she left the door unlocked while working outside that morning, Other witnesses climbed to have seen strange persons in the vicinity. No bloodstains were found on Lizzie and the prussic acid charge was dropped as irrelevant.

At no time did Lizzie herself take stand, and throughout the trial she remained silent and tightlipped.

Following her lawyer's brilliant plea, in which he contrasted Lizzie's gentle reputation with ghastly brutality of the murders (Also because she was female), Lizzie was acquitted by jury on June 20th 1893 and the Crime has never been sloved.

(Lizzie Borden Rhymes and Depictions)

There's been a lot suspension that Lizzie is the Killer and Reasons that can differently point to her as the killer but with the days of the time the murders occured saying "woman could not commit this type of brutal act", and that was let her to be acquitted and not charged in the crime, however even with the suspension and evidence that can point to her, now a days, Lizzie is very much seen as the Prime suspect and killer, and with that a lot have been based on the case and based on Lizzie herself.....mostly as the killer, Rhymes and Depictions around the case have been made in the culture of America, as Scholar Ann Schofield notes that "Borden's story has tended to take one or the other of two fictional forms: the tragic romance and the feminist quest ... As the story of Lizzie Borden has been created and re-created through rhyme and fiction it has taken on the qualities of a popular American myth or legend that effectively links the present to the past."

Let's talk about the Rhymes, the popular rhyme was in a skipping rope rhyme sung with the then-popular song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay, it goes like this:

"Lizzie Borden took an axe

and gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done,

She gave her father forty-one."

It's apparent that it was made up by an anonymous writer as a tune to sell newspapers. Others think of the ubiquitous, anonymous, "Mother Goose".

In reality, Borden's stepmother Abby had actually suffered 18 or 19 blows while her father suffered only 11 blows.

There's also a second less well-known version of the titular rhyme that goes like this instead:

"Andrew Borden now is dead,

Lizzie hit him on the head.

Up in heaven he will sing,

on the gallows she will swing."

As far as depictions go let me name the most known to not make this too long.

Among the earlier portrayals on stage was John Colton and Carleton Miles's 1933 play Nine Pine Street, in which Lillian Gish played Effie Holden, a character who is based on Borden. The play was not a success and ran for only 28 performances. In 1947 Lillian de la Torre wrote a one-act play, Goodbye, Miss Lizzie Borden.

Carmen Matthews played Lizzie Borden in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents season 1 episode "The Older Sister", with Joan Lorring as Emma and Hitchcock's daughter Pat as the servant Margaret. The episode aired on January 22, 1956, and takes place in 1893, with a determined woman reporter trying to interview the sisters one year after the murders and end with the revelation that Emma committed the murders.

In 2015, Supernatural aired an episode entitled "Thin Lizzie". In the episode, Sam and Dean Winchester investigate the "Lizzie Borden house" after several people are murdered with an ax. They originally suspect that the ghost of Lizzie Borden is the one who is responsible for the murders, but they then discover that she isn't the murderer.

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And that's the Lizzie Borden Case, the next cards for those interested, I'll be talking about the Titanic and Amelia Earhart so see you next time.