Lizzie Borden Case

The Unsolved Case of Lizzie Borden The Lizzie Borden nursery rhyme is about a daughter murdering her father and stepmother. The Lizzie Borden case is unsolved due to the lack of evidence. The reports say that Lizzie murdered her stepmother, Abby Durfree Gray Borden, then she murdered her father, Andrew Jackson Borden. This event occurred in Massachusetts in the year of 1892. The Lizzie Borden case is still important today due to the fact that it remains unsolved after 123 years. Lizzie Borden was a Sunday School teacher and because of this, the entire town was shocked when they heard what had happened. It is said that Lizzie Borden murdered her stepmother with an axe. After she had done that, she murdered her father. Articles say that
She was said to be murdered two hours before Andrew, even though Andrew was found first. Abby was upstairs in her and Andrew’s bedroom. Andrew was downstairs on the couch in the living room. Abby was said to be murdered first because she could go unnoticed longer, as where if Andrew was murdered first, he would not have been hard to find because he was in the living room. (prairieghosts.com) The third line of the nursery rhyme is: “And when she saw what she had done.” This line is just stating that she realized she had killed her stepmother. After realizing she had killed her, she goes downstairs and kills her father. The fourth and final line of the nursery rhyme says: “She gave her father forty-one.” This line says that Lizzie took the same ax she killed her stepmother with, and killed her father. Her father was Andrew Borden. The statement that is wrong with this line is that she did not hit her father 41 times, the reports says he was only hit 11 times.
Lizzie said the dress was stained with paint and was of no use. It was this testimony that Judge Blaisdell decided to charge Lizzie with the murder of her father and she was taken into custody. She was arraigned that following day and pleaded not guilty. She was then taken to the Taunton Jail which had facilities for women prisoners. The next trial, she was charged with three murders: the murder of her father, the murder of her step-mother, and the murder of both of them. The case was turned over to the grand jury and she was found not guilty. (prairieghosts.com) Over 100 years have passed since the murders in Massachusetts and the murders are still “unsolved.” People still have a fascination for the events surrounding the murders of Abby and Andrew Borden. No single theory has ever been regarded as the “correct one,” and every writer seems to have a different take on the murders or a “favorite culprit.” Who can look at a picture of her, always slightly smiling, and wonder what secrets she carried to the grave with her? No one will ever know the truth about the unsolved case of Lizzie