Was Lizzie Borden Guilty

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On august 4th 1892 a murder occurred someone killed lizzie borden's parents. That day people believed that lizzie borden murdered her parents. I believe Lizzie borden is guilty she murdered her parents. She did not have a good relationship with her mom. The day before she wanted to purchase a poison, prussic acid. The other reasons are she said at the time of the murder for her father she was at the loft. All in all i think she is guilty for many reasons because they have a lot of evidence on her.

Lizzie borden is guilty because she murdered her parents. Why I think she is guilty because the day before the murder she tried to purchase a poison prussic acid. The reason why she wanted to buy it because she said that she needed the acid to clean a sealskin cape.How the evidence supports my claim because she said she needed to clean but I don't think she needed it to clean. Another reason is because she might of wanted to give her parents the prussic acid. I think she also might have wanted to give her mother the prussic acid because she did not like her. All in all I believe she is guilty because she wanted to purchase the prussic acid.
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She did not like her mother in the article it says she had a strained relationship with her step-mother. It says they usually ate their meals separately and it says when the police interviewed her abby and lizzie did not want to call her stepmother or mother. She did not want to call her mom either of those words because she does not find her as her mother. The other reason why she does not like her mother because since she lived with her stepmother she called her mother. Then after a while she did not want to call her she started calling her by her first name after

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