Background
Lizzie Andrew Borden was born July 19, 1860, in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Sarah (who died soon after) and Andrew Borden, a manufacturer and salesman of furniture and caskets. Three years later, Andrew Borden married Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie and her elder sister Emma Lenora Borden lived with Andrew and his new wife into adulthood. The girls’ relationship with their stepmother was cold, it seems; Lizzie Borden stated in a police interview that she and her sister addressed their stepmother as “Mrs. Borden,” and Lizzy believed that Abby Borden was after her father’s considerable wealth.
The Crime
On august 4, 1892, Borden house maid Bridget Sullivan heard a cry from Lizzy, the younger of the Borden sisters, alerting her to the fact of Mr. Borden’s death. It became apparent that, while sleeping on the sofa, Mr. Borden had been attacked with a hatchet and killed. Half an hour later, a neighbor, Adelaide Churchill, who had been called over to console Lizzy, discovered the cold body of Abby Borden, also the victim of hatchet wounds, on the second floor of the house. Due to the fact that Andrew Borden’s body had been found still warm, investigators concluded …show more content…
The left eye had been dug out and a cut extended the length of the nose. The face was hacked to pieced and the blood had covered the man's shirt...” Additionally, it seemed that despite the obvious sign of crime, (a dead man hacked to pieces,) the room was undisturbed and bore no signs of a struggle. This same article stated that medical evidence suggested that Abby Borden was struck from behind, by a tall man. This medical opinion was later revised, as one “leading physician” proposed that "hacking is almost a positive sign of a deed by a woman who is unconscious of what she is
Lizzie Andrew Borden was born July 19, 1860, in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Sarah (who died soon after) and Andrew Borden, a manufacturer and salesman of furniture and caskets. Three years later, Andrew Borden married Abby Durfee Gray. Lizzie and her elder sister Emma Lenora Borden lived with Andrew and his new wife into adulthood. The girls’ relationship with their stepmother was cold, it seems; Lizzie Borden stated in a police interview that she and her sister addressed their stepmother as “Mrs. Borden,” and Lizzy believed that Abby Borden was after her father’s considerable wealth.
The Crime
On august 4, 1892, Borden house maid Bridget Sullivan heard a cry from Lizzy, the younger of the Borden sisters, alerting her to the fact of Mr. Borden’s death. It became apparent that, while sleeping on the sofa, Mr. Borden had been attacked with a hatchet and killed. Half an hour later, a neighbor, Adelaide Churchill, who had been called over to console Lizzy, discovered the cold body of Abby Borden, also the victim of hatchet wounds, on the second floor of the house. Due to the fact that Andrew Borden’s body had been found still warm, investigators concluded …show more content…
The left eye had been dug out and a cut extended the length of the nose. The face was hacked to pieced and the blood had covered the man's shirt...” Additionally, it seemed that despite the obvious sign of crime, (a dead man hacked to pieces,) the room was undisturbed and bore no signs of a struggle. This same article stated that medical evidence suggested that Abby Borden was struck from behind, by a tall man. This medical opinion was later revised, as one “leading physician” proposed that "hacking is almost a positive sign of a deed by a woman who is unconscious of what she is