Why Was Lizzie Borden Guilty

Was Lizzie Borden Guilty or not?

Ben O’Neil On August 4, 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Borden were murdered in their house shortly before noon. Andrew Borden’s body was still warm and the blood was still wet. While the police were investigating the house for clues to who killed Andrew Borden, they found the body of Abby Borden. She was cold and her blood was dry. Abby was killed about ninety minutes before Andrew. So Abby would have been killed around 9:00 to 10:30 am while Andrew was killed around 10:30am to 11:10am. Lizzie Borden would have been the only person in the house during the time of the murders. When the police questioned her, her story about where she was during the murder kept changing.

She said that she was in the Barn making sinkers out of lead for a fishing pole. Then she said that she was using the lead to repair a screen. Next she said that she was downstairs when her step-mother was killed upstairs, but she never heard any sound of the body hitting the floor. Police then went

She was the only person in the house during the murders and she had a motive to murder her step-mother. She hated her step-mother because her father had given large amounts of land to her family. Lizzie and her sister Emma felt that their father was giving his wife’s family land and expensive gifts out of favoritism. They also believed that someone in the house was stealing from everyone else. Lizzie was at the house the time the murders took place. She said that she saw a stranger walking near the house. If a stranger was hiding in the house, they would have had to kill Abby Borden then hide for two hours then find Andrew Borden on the couch and murder him. Of course it’s not impossible that someone who had a grudge against the Bordens could have hid for hours in the house and killed the parents, but it’s unlikely. Since someone was stealing from everyone else in the house, all of the doors were locked almost all of the