Lizzie Borden Research Paper

August 4, 1892 the two bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden were found slain with what appeared to be an axe in their Massachusetts home located in the town of Fall River. The town was a buzz with the thought of who could possibly commit such heinous crime? Speculation focused on the youngest daughter of the two Borden girls, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Andrew Borden a Sunday school teacher and the head of the local hospital’s Fruit and Flower Mission. A seemingly unfit candidate for the axe-wielding murderer of her father and stepmother, or so they thought. Lizzie Borden’s home life was not all it seemed to be, her father Andrew Borden came from a family of social advantage. Mr. Borden who at the time of his death was a bank president could afford to live in the upper part of the town …show more content…
Lizzie simply said “I am innocent and I leave it up to my counsel to speak for me.” The jury came to a quick vote but for fear of looking as if they had made up their minds beforehand stayed in the room and chatted for a while. After an hour and a half the jury found Lizzie Borden not guilty. the decision was met with grandiose applause, with newspapers everywhere blaming the police for the torture of this poor young woman. Emma and Lizzie moved to a mansion on the Hill naming it Maplecroft. After a while even though the law found her not guilty the people started too, no one wanted to be seen with a accused murderer. As the years went on the people of Fall river became more and more convinced that Lizzie was the killer. Lizzie could not even keep her name out of the news after some years later she was accused for shoplifting paintings from a store in Rhode Island but she never went to court. Lizzie and her sister grew apart and Emma left Maplecroft never to be seen again and although Lizzie was now a social outcast she had finally gotten what she had wanted all along, to be the queen of her own castle on the