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‘Lizzie Borden took an ax’: Inside America’s most chilling unsolved murder
Theories of financial motives, family feuds, and madness surround the case though no one was convicted, leaving the double homicide an enduring mystery.
- In Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet, sparking fear in the town on August 4, 1892.
- With only the maid Bridget Sullivan at home, suspicion fell on Lizzie Borden, who was indicted after an inquest, as Emma was 15 miles away.
- At the June 1893 trial prosecutors accused Lizzie of killing her stepmother with at least 18 blows and her father with another 11, but the murder weapon and bloody clothing were never found.
- An all-male jury found Lizzie not guilty after roughly one hour of deliberation, and the trial made her a national celebrity with the Boston Globe paying $500 for sensational coverage in Fall River, Massachusetts.
- Over a century later, Lizzie Borden's case remains one of history's most chilling unsolved murders, inspiring a cultural rhyme mentioning forty whacks and forty-one, while one researcher said `If she did not swing the ax, she knows who did.
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