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    Lizzie Borden Murder

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    person, let alone one’s own parents is, to most people, baffling and horrifying. Lizzie, in Sharon Pollock’s play, Blood Relations, is a curious character that murders both her parents using a hatchet. Based on the 1982 event in Massachusetts, Pollock creates her own account of the Lizzie Borden murder, but still remains true to historical details. A number of events lead up the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden. Asking Lizzie to get married is the first trigger, which leads to her lust for revenge…

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    Lizzie Borden Thesis

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    “Lizzie Borden with an axe, Gave her father forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, She gave her mother forty-one – Children’s rhyme” (Carter 43) Lizzie Borden is a woman in her thirties yet she is stuck in a young girls mind set due to her never leaving home or starting her own life, living off her father’s funds and not having a motherly figure in her life. Lizzie Borden lived a very parasitic type lifestyle, never leaving home or getting married. She never got to live a normal girl’s…

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    The Famous Murder Trial’s Killer Discovered Lizzie Borden’s trial was one of the mysterious and famous murder trials in 1900’s. This murder trial took place in the Borden’s house on 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house incorporated Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. However, the main suspect was revealed to be Lizzie Borden in the trial; therefore, she was arrested for her…

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    against them. The Lizzie Borden murder case is a mischievous murder that still hasn’t been solved. We had to solve the murder. DId Lizzie commit the murder of her parents or was she telling the truth? Lizzie Borden did kill her parents. She had a motive and a reason why she could commit the crime. She hated her stepmother and her father didn’t give her the life they could have. Lizzie burned a dress a few days after the murders. She also tried to buy poison the day before the murder. Lizzie…

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    Lizzie Borden, Is she guilty? Lizzie Borden took an axe gave her mother forty whacks, but did she really? Lizzie Borden should have been known as guilty to the U.S. justice system for the murders of her parents. Massachusetts, August 4th 1892 was the tragic day that someone murdered Abby and Andrew Borden. This case was dismissed because of lack of evidence. There is still controversy about how Lizzie should’ve been guilty there is no other suspects, but somehow she got around it.…

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    Was it the mother, the brother, or an actual murderer that killed JonBenet Ramsey? JonBenet Ramsey was a six year old girl who was brutally murdered. Today, the murderer still hasn’t been found. Was it her own parents as an accident or even her brother from being angry? This cold case has different theories and is still incorporated into pop culture today. JonBenet was the daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey. She was also the sister of her big brother Burke. JonBenet was an innocent little…

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    Lizzie Borden was one of the famous murdered cases in the United States. On August 4, 1892 she was accused of committing a double parricide. Lizzie Borden grew up in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. Her father Andrew Borden was a very hardworking respected man in the community. He was wealthy and had a few luxuries. At the age 2, Lizzie’s mother died of uterine congestion and spine disease. When Lizzie mother passed, he remarried to Abby Borden. Abby Borden was Lizzie’s stepmother. She was…

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    Rachael Bicer Forensics Mrs. Mentzer 14 October 2016 Innocent or Guilty? How is it that to this day a killer has not been found in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey? Twenty years has past, and nothing conclusive has come about to bring peace the Ramsey’s. JonBenet was a six year old beauty queen from Boulder, Colorado. On December 25th, 1996 the little girl was found murdered in the basement of her family home. Her body was found just a mere eight hours after her mother reported her missing to the…

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    choice voting during the “Summer of Lizzie McGuire” promotion. The story is all about a dress competition in their University. Lizzie McGuire is a student girl who wants to beat Kate and Claire for the “Best Dressed” of her class. Summary The voting for the class favorite is soon to be open and Lizzie like to win the best dress but her mother Mrs. McGuire have not enough money to buy Lizzie her favorite pair of pants but she promised she’ll help Lizzie and Mrs. McGuire go to bargain hunting…

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    Best Dressed

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    of Lizzie McGuire” promotion. It beat out “Magic train”. And Lizzie McGuire wants to beat Kate and Claire for the “Best Dressed” of her class. Summary Voting will soon to be held for the class favorites. Lizzie hope to win the award for the “Best Dressed”, and Gordo schemes to get his picture in the yearbook many times than anyone else, and Miranda receives encouragement that she could be “Most piosed”. Lizzie asks her mother if she buy her a pair of jeans to help her win the award. McGuire…

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