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foreign [Music] it's an amazing story it really is it's a story of one very unhappy family in a
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house it is a morning like so many other Mornings in a small town in New England
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a father a stepmother living with his two adult daughters lizzy32 and Emma 41. Lizzie was seen by the next door
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neighbor and the neighbor asked what's the matter and she announces that her father has been killed
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law enforcement Personnel arrived and found a gruesome murder two bodies a lot of blood there is a husband downstairs
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ten wounds to his head and almost half of his face is obliterated and just on the second floor was his wife
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she was face down with a tremendous amount of injury to the back of her head it seems like the most likely murder
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weapon was a hatchet with a three and a half inch blade when someone is struck multiple times with a hatchet to the
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Head that's personal [Music] you know one of the most fascinating parts of this case is that except for
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around the bodies there's no blood found anywhere you would think that whoever was the perpetrator would be covered
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with blood blood spatter nothing suspicion turned to the people in the house and the only people in the house
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are his daughter and their housekeeper it was so shocking for the police to come to the conclusion
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that the daughter had killed her father and stepmother you would have to believe
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that this sweet seemingly harmless woman did this horrific thing women are as capable as men not only for the good but
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for the bad as well [Music] on August the 4th 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to
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death in their Fall River Massachusetts home [Music] every generation has that one really
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terrible case that we don't have any answers to there is only one plausible explanation
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you believe killed Andrew and Abby Borden Lizzy Lizzie's responsible for these murders
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it was Lizzie Borden who intended to murder and did murder Abby and Andrew Borden it was not until I read about
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this case that I learned that I was wrong and all of us are wrong Lizzie Borden was acquitted so no one
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has ever been held accountable for the crime but if not her then who this is somebody who may have
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quite literally gotten away with murder [Music] she gave her a father 41. [Music]
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foreign [Music] the crimes were so violent that many thought that Jack the Ripper
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had come to America it was an unspeakable crime a double homicide that captured the attention of
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the entire nation tonight on a special 48 hours we're taking a fresh look at a Cold Case a really cold case it occurred
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in 1892 and we're presenting it to a new jury to see if they can separate fact from Fable the defendant was a 32 year
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old daughter of the victims her name Lizzie Borden I began studying Lizzie Borden When I
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Was An undergraduate Los Angeles author Cara Robertson has been living with Lizzie Borden for a long time I was
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interested in trying to find a topic for my college thesis 30 years later her thesis became this a remarkably detailed
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look at the accusations against Lizzie Borden and her high-profile trial published by Simon and Schuster
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fundamentally the case was about whether or not someone like Lizzie Borden could
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have committed these brutal crimes and in 1893 a jury of 12 men agreed she couldn't returning a unanimous verdict
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of not guilty this was the kind of crime that was just could not have been committed by a woman but despite being
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acquitted time and popular culture has Forever cast Lizzy as one of America's most notorious Killers so did she do it
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or not to help get to the bottom of this mystery we brought together a team of pay
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Consultants two extremely experienced lawyers my name is anastica nicolazzi I was a
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prosecutor for 21 years at the Brooklyn DA's office my name is Matthew troiano I'm a
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criminal defense attorney in New Jersey and equally seasoned investigators my name is Aaron rubis and I am a crime
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scene investigator and a former homicide detective I'm Andrew schweikart I'm a criminalist
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at the New York City office of the chief medical examiner from the perspective that this happened
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over a hundred years ago I think it's relevant now the same way it was relevant then and it's just a
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fascinating story that's that Story begins here Fall River Massachusetts 1892. prominent local businessman Andrew
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Borden was wealthy but also Frugal choosing to live here with his second wife Abby Borden just a block from the
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center of town the house is modest even by 1890s standards with almost no indoor
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plumbing or gas lighting he was cheap he was known to be at the extreme end of Yankee frugality
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[Music] wow you can't analyze the crime without seeing where it all took place so we
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brought crime scene investigator Aaron rubis here what is important what do you really want to see for yourself I want
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to be able to take myself back into the crime scene based on what I've read I want to be able to kind of put those
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pieces together that are missing and she's able to do that because the house oddly enough so this is it is now a bed
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and breakfast and restored in the style of the time complete with actual crime scene photos
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here it is then displays to your left is a replica of Andrew Borden's skull and to your right is Abby I would
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definitely say that whoever did this this was personal this was a lot of anger and a lot of
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reach Lucy ports is a fairly unremarkable woman she was unmarried she was active
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in her local church Emma Borden is Lizzie Borden's older sister always played a bit of a maternal role
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with respect to Lizzie Emma at the time of the murders had been out of town for two weeks visiting friends and Abby
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Borden how would you describe Abby Borden Abby Borden she she's often cast in the story as the you know the evil
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stepmother but in fact she's she may well have been the nicest person in the in the house
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which brings us to the late morning of August 4th 1892. Lizzie standing at the side door of the house tells her next
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door neighbor Adelaide Churchill that her father has been killed and does the neighbor see any blood
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unless The Neighbor comes over directly and sees absolutely no blood nothing on her face her hands her clothing nothing
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she seems perfectly uh presented and this is how police found Lizzie's father stretched out on the couch in the
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sitting room bludgeoned to death it's pretty brutal I mean his entire face is brutally bashed in
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but what if Andrew's wife Abby Lizzie's sitting in the kitchen with that neighbor Adelaide Churchill offers
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an answer she remarks that she thinks perhaps she hurt her stepmother come in at which point Bridget Sullivan and
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Adelaide Churchill the next door neighbor go upstairs and find the body of Abby Borden this right over here is where
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Abby Borden was found dead face down that scene is if anything more horrible Abby suffered 19 blows
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[Music] she's face down a much of her the back of her head has been hacked [Music]
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you can imagine the pressure that was on the police to come upon a scene like that
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the Assumption at first was that it must have been a deranged Outsider because the crimes were so shocking but when it
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became clear that you know no one had been spotted in the vicinity then suspicion turned to the people in the
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house the house was Triple locked in the front door and the back door was locked
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and the only door that could have been unlocked was the side door they had to find a suspect
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and they fastened upon Lizzie Borden as an obvious choice she is the only one that could have
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committed these crimes [Music] [Music] on Saturday August 6 while Andrew and Abby Borden were being laid to rest news
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of their murder was spreading far and fast the brutality of the murders alone was
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enough to make this Front Page News across the country I'm the Fall River Police Department was
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beginning its investigation how would you describe the state of forensics in 1892. it was very primitive
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I think in many ways it was the perfect time for somebody to potentially get away with a crime like this
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besides police the Borden house was crowded with doctors reporters neighbors and even several passersby so anything
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really that was discovered at that crime scene was seriously compromised because
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we don't know when or by whom it was deposited they take up pieces of carpet they count blood stains they search for
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evidence blood on any clothing what they find though are more questions and answers
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one fact is clear Abby was killed before Andrew his death was so recent that his injuries were
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noted to have been oozing wet liquid blood he was also warm to the touch on the other hand Abby who was upstairs had
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matted coagulated blood dark blood on her injuries she was also called to the touch
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five days later during a police inquest Lizzie gives her version of what happened that morning
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five people wake up in the Borden house Andrew and Abby Borden Lizzie Borden the
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housemaid Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie's Uncle John Morse Andrew's brother-in-law
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John Morse visiting from out of town was staying in the guest room this is where
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John Morse had stayed the night before we know that John Morse left in the morning to go visit other relatives in a
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different part of town and Andrew Borden walked into the center of town to visit
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some of the buildings that he owned Abby Borton went upstairs to clean up the guest room Lizzie says that she was in
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the dining room she was actually ironing and Bridget Sullivan was outside washing windows when about 9
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30 in the morning police believe Abby Borden fell to the floor murdered Abby Borden was a short woman but she weighed
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about 200 pounds and did Lizzie hear anything at all she claims not to have heard anything
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according to Lizzie's testimony Andrew returned home at 10 45 greeting both the housekeeper and Lizzie and then retired
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to that sitting room to take a nap on the couch according to the medical examiner 45 minutes later Andrew Borden
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was also dead that was the opportunity right there he's on that couch and he's sleeping
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and there was your opportunity police were sure they had the when but there was still the question of why what
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was the motive Lizzie may have given police that answer during the inquest Lizzy and her sister Emma both really
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desired to live a way better life and they really resented their father for not providing that for them
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Andrew decided essentially to bail out his wife's half sibling by buying a house and putting it
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in Abby's name and thereafter you find that the house is a scene of a cold war clearly Lizzie was not happy that that
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house was going to go to her Stepmother's sister but enough to provide a motive for that kind of
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vicious killing they were brutal certainly brutal enough to Mark the perpetrator with evidence I would think
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that there would definitely be blood on her and yet you know one of the most fascinating
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parts of this case is that except for around the bodies there's no blood found anywhere
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Lizzie Borden is the killer how did she not have any blood spatter on her her neighbor said she was spotless so where
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was the blood police searched the house and only found two instances of blood evidence a minute spot on one of
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Lizzie's undergarments and a bucket of bloody cloths in the cellar washroom Lizzie gave them a very personal
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explanation for both she was menstruating I think that was such a personal issue
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that let's face it who's going to challenge that if we were to have that today could we show okay is this Lizzy's
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blood or is it Andrew and Abby's blood also puzzling and very suspicious Lizzie's choice to burn a dress in the
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kitchen stove the day after her father's funeral Lizzy and Emma claimed that the
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dress had been stained with paint and it needed to be burned and they thought that was as good a time as any for me
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the most valuable piece of evidence is the dress that Lizzie burned if she's responsible for this it would have blood
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from the victims on it and that would be very difficult for Lizzie to explain and
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with no dress there was nothing to explain it seemed the more they looked the less
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investigators found until down in the cellar it's in here that the hatchet was found a particular Hatchet
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head was found in a box of abandoned tools it became known as the handelus hatchet and would be a subject of debate
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for years to come it only had a piece of a handle and according to the police it
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was a fresh break this particular Hatchet head almost looked like it had been deliberately
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covered with a layer of Ash it's about three and a half inches of a cutting blade and that seemed consistent with
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the wounds on Andrew and Abby's body she could have quickly rinsed off that hatchet head thrown it in a pile of Ash
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to obliterate any lingering blood and then just tossed it in the cellar to make it look like an old piece of junk I
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mean there are endless places in this house to hide stuff if it was the murder weapon police later
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discovered it might not have been Lizzie's first weapon of choice someone who was identified as Lizzie
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Borden tried to buy prussic acid the day before the murders in 1892 prostic acid a lethal poison was
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only available with a doctor's prescription the woman said that she needed it to put an edge on a steel skin
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cape and we know that Lizzie Borden did in fact have seal skin capes but the pharmacist said he never heard of it
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used that way and refused to sell it to her and then because she was unable to get
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the poison she turned instead to a readily available household implement the hatchet that's right
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it would seem the police came to the same conclusion at the close of the inquest the chief of police placed
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Lizzie Borden under arrest for murder [Music] on June 5th 1893 ten months after her arrest Lizzie
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Borden sat in the Superior Court in New Bedford Massachusetts in this very chair
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on trial for murder the first day of Lizzie Borden's trial attracted a massive crowd
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reporters were detailed from around the country people waited for hours online it was called the trial of the century
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the 19th century what I think is striking is that many of the people most interested in the case
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were women but why why are these women willing to put aside their lives to attend the trial this was the trial of a
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woman who seemed to have transcended the limits of her sex in such a violent way
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the women I think were curious to see the monster while they were welcome to watch at the
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time women were not allowed to sit on the jury there won't be in fact uh women jurors
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until 1951 in Massachusetts despite the rigid standards of the times the proceedings of the trial were
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surprisingly familiar to our Consulting attorneys from what I've read you could take this trial transcript and put it
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into 2020 and it would basically be the same both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys came in with a lot of
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the same arguments that I would imagine today in front of a panel of three judges and
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a jury of 12 men the prosecutor began his opening statement with a simple premise that Lizzie Borden is the only
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person with the opportunity and the motive to have committed the crimes but it was how he wrapped up his open
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that stunned the courtroom he alludes to the fact that he has the skulls of the victims the actual heads of the
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victims in the courtroom yes and uh Lizzie Borden responds by fainting [Music] over the next week the jury hears from a
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parade of prosecution witnesses the prosecution works very methodically and lays out the evidence
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evidence of who was killed first if Andrew had been killed first and automatically Abby's family will get
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part of the money where she's killed first everything is just for the girls evidence matching the skulls to the
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suspected murder weapon to show that the dimensions of the injuries on the skull aligned with the
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dimensions of the most probable murder weapon which was the hatchet and testimony of Lizzie's ability to
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wield that hatchet the medical experts all said that a woman of ordinary build and ordinary strength could have
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committed the murders but there is one thing the judges don't allow the jury to hear some of the
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prosecution's best evidence is kept from the jury most notably her alleged attempts to buy
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prussic acid before the murders if she's out there getting poison that is absolutely something the jury should
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consider when two people in her home were found dead the next day was it right to keep that out as a defense
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attorney Shore right hugely prejudicial not really relevant after nine days the prosecution rests and Lizzie's defense
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team goes to work the defense is much more interested in in telling a story that she's just an ordinary person
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caught in this unbelievably horrible situation clearly there's a lack of evidence and
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then there's a second part of hey we just don't think that she did this the defense needed only two days of witness
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testimony to make its case and it's a case for reasonable doubt you cannot answer the questions that have to be
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answered here and that's reasonable doubt what was perhaps the most powerful defense
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the most powerful witness in her defense was her sister Emma Emma testified that
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it was her idea rather than Lizzie's to burn the dress which makes it seemed like it was a much more
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innocent thing to do Lizzie Borden never testified and after three weeks the trial ended with closing arguments but
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before the jury was charged Lizzie did have the last word and she says I am innocent I leave it to
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my counsel to speak for me and with that the case went to the jury the courtroom is packed people are also
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standing out in the corridors and around the front of the building waiting for some kind of word
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they didn't have to wait long the jury took less than two hours to reach a verdict
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the foreman it's reported almost can't contain his excitement that just says not guilty just blurts it out flirts it
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out yeah and at that point Lizzie Borden falls into her chair as if shot and puts her head on the rail
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meanwhile the courtroom erupts into cheers and there are Cheers outside that could be heard a mile away
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maybe this is the prosecutor of me but I was shocked she was acquitted it is so clear to me
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as much as it can be that she is guilty now whether or not they thought it was not guilty or innocent who knows but
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they certainly didn't think she was guilty and I think at the end of the day they just didn't want to believe that
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such a terrible horrific crime could have been done by somebody like Lizzie Borden
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but now in 2020 would a jury of men and women come to the same conclusion there is only one person who reasonably could
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have committed this crime who did commit this crime and that is the defendant Lizzie Borton
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[Music] thank you in 1893 Lizzie Borden was found not guilty by a jury of 12 men
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who couldn't believe a woman was capable of such acts of extreme violence but how would a jury of men and women
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vote today in 2020 to try and answer that question we hired a jury recruiting firm
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to find us a panel of men and women who had never heard of Lizzie Borden and then paid them to decide the case
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this is not a retrial but a presentation argued by our Consulting attorneys in their own words without any guidance
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from us this is the case of Lizzie Borden the rules are simple only evidence presented in the original trial
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could be presented here and all facts should be presumed to be true good morning everyone prosecutor Anna siga
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nicolazzi and defense attorney Matthew troiano good morning ladies and gentlemen deliver their opening
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statements this case is about bitterness resentment and fear greed was what drove
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Lizzie Borden to do what she did just one night before these two Innocents are bludgeoned in their own home the
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defendant goes to see a friend she out of nowhere volunteered she'd been feeling depressed and so
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worried about many nameless faceless enemies that her father had and she left with this
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I'm afraid something's going to happen Lizzie Borden is guilty of her parents her father and her Stepmother's murder
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and the evidence by the end will prove that to you beyond any reasonable doubt thank you
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this is a woman of 32 years old who is accused of the most vicious and heinous murder that one could imagine what would
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you expect to see around the person and on the person that did this blood a lot of blood right there's no blood on
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her at all there's no blood on her hands there's no blood on her face there's no
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blood anywhere on her the reality here ladies and gentlemen is the evidence is lacking the story is
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good but the evidence is lacking and if you are going to come back and convict somebody of this crime you
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better get a little bit more than a story thank you next prosecutor nicolazzi calls on our experts people
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call Crime Scene detective Aaron rubis to explain the evidence the locked doors the hatchet the pale of bloody rags and
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that burned dress but it's the blood evidence or rather the lack of it that is her
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biggest challenge it is my belief that this was done from someone facing him and directly almost over top of him
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and it's fair to say that even with that number of wounds there was not a whole lot of blood that's correct with Abby
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Borden how many wounds were observed on her body there were 19 wounds observed on Mrs
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Borden 18 to the back of her head on the right side and one at the base of her neck possible to commit those murders
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and not get on you based on the type of wounds that we had absolutely did he have any
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defensive wounds none that were observed and why wouldn't the victims fight back
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if someone sees someone who is familiar could that contribute to lack of initial
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defensive wounds possibly did they recover anything in terms of any possible weapon
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a hatchet head is there anything about the size of the actual Hatchet that was recovered that would preclude
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a woman from using it no no matter the size no matter the size I have nothing further
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for the defenses cross-examination troiano again focuses on that lack of blood so you would agree that at the
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point that obviously the object hits that source of blood there's going to be blood that comes out from it is that
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correct yes I think that does depend on the specifics but yes but certainly as far as you know there was no dress that
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was found that would have had blood spatter on it is that correct correct the only blood that is on an article of
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clothing was a 1 16 inch size Pinhead spot of blood on an underdress underneath an outer dress that's correct
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that was the only piece of blood that was detected any blood on that hatchet not that was observed and in 1892 with
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no scientific testing available observation was the best and only tool at hand no other apparent blood anywhere
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else or quite frankly anywhere in the house is that correct other than blood in the immediate two
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areas of the two homicides and potential Blood on the pail in the cellar there was no mention of blood elsewhere in the
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case record I think that's all I have thank you and then both lawyers make their final argument
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to the jury I think what you've heard over the course of the last couple hours or
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questions but not proof and not proof beyond the Reasonable Doubt very much like a jigsaw puzzle
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but I suggest that when you look at all those pieces it's not one that is overly
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tough to solve you are not here to find a solution to the puzzle but you are here to decide if a crime was committed
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and if this person the defendant Lizzie Borden committed it and all the pieces of evidence say yes there is no direct
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evidence here right and the circumstantial evidence is so very weak that it can't be enough so think those
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things through I know you will so thank you very much the evidence is all there when you use all of it and use your
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common sense it is proof of one thing Lizzie Borden the defendant bludgeoned her stepmother and her father to death
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and for that you should find her guilty thank you and with that once again Lizzy's fate is
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in the hands of a jury I feel like it has to be somebody familiar with the house but what's different this time is
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that these lawyers get to hear the jury deliberate think of the murder weapon the hatchet you chopping at someone
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there's no blood whatsoever foreign [Music] more than a century after Lizzie Borden
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went on trial for murder this jury of eight people have been asked to wrestle with many of the same questions
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it's an unheard of opportunity to be in the room for an actual deliberation but it quickly becomes clear that there are
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no easy answers for our jurors Frank James Michelle Amy Michael Darrell Larissa and Jennifer what are the big
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concerns here the prosecutor said resentment bitterness and greed it just seems like
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Overkill if she wasn't going to lose everything either she's a sociopath or possibly not
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guilty but and that's my only question I feel like to go for first degree murder of both victims there has to be
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malice and forethought and I don't believe that was proven you know you could I mean these are two
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different counts so if you wanted to you could decide that she's guilty of one and not guilty of the other Abigail was
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struck 19 times like you said it's Overkill but there's still a lot of like like I said unknowns in terms of how do
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they clean that that up I can't figure out how she could have done it and been standing there
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with nothing like nothing on her like house and everything normal I feel like it has to be somebody familiar with the
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house also familiar with the victims because they clearly familiar with the attacker
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I'm not convinced Beyond a reasonable doubt that she's guilty I don't buy it but I don't think the
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standard is completely convinced it's beyond A Reasonable Doubt but that doesn't mean completely unlike the
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original jury this panel has no trouble believing a woman could kill the question is was it this woman if she
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doesn't know how to kill a pig or livestock then she knows how to do it right and they believed she had
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the motive she hated her stepmother but there were still questions Wiley Bridget alive why leave the bloody
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Rags just hanging out let's forget about our accomplices or her motivation the question is did she do it after more
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than an hour of deliberation so do you want to you know take a boat from everybody on two different counts the
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vote on the charge of first degree with the death of Abby Borton uh guilty uh guilty
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guilty guilty guilty guilty I keep going back to she looks guilty but I'm not convinced
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so I'm back to not guilty here's the last one you're out guilty yeah guilty you're sure yes positive on
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that one on the charge of first degree with Andrew Borden guilty guilty guilty guilty
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guilty guilty not guilty not guilty while Jarrell was confident Lizzie had planned to kill Abby he believed the
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murder of her father was purely spontaneous I just I don't know if that premeditation factored in with Dad
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and with that the foreman published the jury's verdict on the charge of first-degree murder of Abby Borden we
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are a hung jury and on the charge of first-degree murder for Andrew Jackson Borden we are also a
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hung jury there's still something profoundly unsettling about the idea that a woman
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who seems normal committing a crime like this we heard most of these jurors vote to
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tears yeah there was a lot there were a number of them that were expressing doubt and you know you wonder is that a
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misunderstanding of the standard or is it just they're making a call right it was fascinating but at the same time
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troubling at times I think if you really broke it down those that voted for guilty at the end really did Express
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that they did think it was her and that the evidence had proven it while they may not have expressed it that clearly
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in that one thought so is it fair to say that we've not solved the mystery of Lizzie Borden and it will be argued for
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another 120 something years feel like we've solved the mystery of Lizzie Borden we just haven't solved
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whether she should have been found guilty or not because it's a very different question
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I think that that's the best way to say it and maybe that's the beauty of of the
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system and maybe it's not clearly Lizzie Borden didn't care what people thought of her after her
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acquittal she wasted little time getting on with her life she stayed in Fall River just not in this home she and her
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sister Emma promptly vacate the cramped family house that was a source of some dissatisfaction inheriting almost 350
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thousand dollars from their father's estate which would be 10 million dollars in today's money Lizzie and Emma bought
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the house they always wanted at the top of the hill in the wealthy part of town she changed her name from Lizzie to
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Lizbeth and she named her house maplecroft it seemed well unseemly to many in the
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community very soon there are people who start to wonder if it wasn't Lizzie Borden then
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who was it Lizzie Borden finds herself unwelcome at the church where she had spent so much of her time and which had
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provided the foundation of her support during the trial 12 years later even Lizzie's sister Emma
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turns her back on her Emma was deeply troubled by something that was going on in the house
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such that she felt it was necessary to severed all ties with her sister who never married finished out her life
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as a recluse alone in her home with her dogs until her Death in June of 1927. did Lizzie ever talk to the Press did
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she ever give her side of the story no Lizzie Borden remained silent coincidentally Emma living in New
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Hampshire died just nine days later they were both laid to rest here alongside their father and their stepmother
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today Fall River Massachusetts Embraces the woman who brought so much notoriety to the town
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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax and gave her mother 40 whacks when she saw what she had done
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she gave her father 41. [Music] last May Lizzie Borden's house was sold for 1.8 million dollars it is still a
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museum and bed and breakfast a twisted love triangle an ominous ultimatum told him it was here to pick
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one a deadly decision and a surprising clue one of the biggest pieces of evidence was a KFC bag the murder of
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