The Borden Family & The Many Theories
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A Childhood Rhyme ...
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one !
92 Second Street.. Fall River,Mass.
This is the home of the Borden family,The father Andrew Borden, stepmother Abby and Andrew's two daughters Emma & Lizzie, Bridget the housemaid also lived in this home. Uncle John Morse, was visiting them he is the brother of the girls late mother he was the one that was staying in the spare room that Abby was cleaning this warm morning .. the Victorian homes were big and beautiful this Victorian community was a place to live where nothing ever happens...
One hot summers day...
On the morning of August 4 1892 Mr. Borden 70 years old left his home but came back between 10:30 -10:45 not feeling well and so he changed to his house shoes and laid down on the sofa for a nap..
Second Street where the Borden's lived
The Legend-this is theory #1
I am not sure why this movie is not on DVD.. Elizabeth Montgomery is great in this movie the last piece of the movie scared me and had nightmares ! I was glad to find it on Youtube it's the best part of the movie.
According to Wikipedia Elizabeth Montgomery is in Lizzie's familly tree ( cousins )
Elizabeth Montgomery-A must see
Arnold Brown-Theory #2
Arnold Brown
Lizzie Borden: The Legend, the Truth, the Final Chapter
Amazon Price: $54.15 (as of 05/28/2012)
One of the most famous cases in the history of American crime took place more than 100 years ago in Fall River, Mass., when wealthy banker-land owner Andrew J. Borden and his second wife, Abby, were hacked to death. Andrew's younger daughter, Lizzie, was tried for the slayings but found innocent and the crime has never been solved
Alfred Hitchcock -The Older Sister theory #3
Episode 17 'The Older Sister'
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season One
Amazon Price: $19.59 (as of 05/28/2012)
"The Older Sister" is based upon the infamous case of Lizzie Borden, who in the late 19th century was suspected -- but never convicted -- of brutally murdering her parents with an axe. The episode takes place one year after the killings, with intrepid reporter Margaret (Patricia Hitchcock) bluffing her way into the home of Lizzie Borden (Carmen Mathews) and her sister Emma (Joan Lorring). Hoping to get all the facts about the grisly murder..
Reopened
![Case Reopened: Lizzie Borden with Ed McBain [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XYH7T28HL._SL160_.jpg)
Case Reopened: Lizzie Borden with Ed McBain [VHS]
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 05/28/2012)
A hundred years later how many people know the real story of Lizzie Borden? Guilty in the minds of many, Lizzie was tried, but never convicted of the gruesome hatchet murders of Abby and Andrew Borden.
Reader Feedback
Did Lizzie do it ?
Yes!
eccles1 says:
I was 100 % sure Lizzie did it but now that I watched all 4 theories I'm not so sure
If not Lizzie who did it ?
Margo_Arrowsmith says:
Who knows, but I suspect that if she did, she was driven to it!
Graphic novel
The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)
Amazon Price: $5.47 (as of 05/28/2012)
Great Links
- CrimeLibrary
The Lizzie Andrew Borden Virtual Museum and Library contain a considerable collection of material related to the Borden Murders of 1892, peripheral subjects, and persons related to the case, Fall River and its environs, and Victorian America.Suspects,crime scene photos,Evidence Intact, Cast of Characters -
this is a good one!- wikipedia.
- getting to know lizzie
- Fall River,Massachusetts
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Trial of Lizzie Borden
- at the time of the trial lizzie was in her 30's her sister in her 40's and the housemaid was in her late 20's- Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
- I love Tru tv crime Library one reason it helps me understand human nature as it is its always a surprise many could would not believe a daughter would do this to her father when she had it all even a maid !
- LIZZIE Borden took a ax
- Dead Men Do Tell Tales
great link! - Elizabeth Montgomery
- VISIT THE LIZZIE BORDEN GALLERY
( Elizabeth Montgomery ) - Bridget Sullivan:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- at the time of the murders Bridget Sullivan the housemaid was cleaning the windows
- Andrew Jackson Borden
A picture of Andrew Borden- Suspects List & more theories
- "Somebody has killed father!"
- lizzie-borden.Bed and Breakfast
- Museum
Home on the hill 'Maplecroft'
Lizzie's dream home up the hill
July of 1893, only a few weeks after she was acquitted , Lizzie and Emma moved into a grand Victorian house at 306 French St.. Lizzie called the 13-room house Maplecroft...Emma, after an unclear dispute with her sister, moved out of Maplecroft and removed to Newmarket, New Hampshire. The two never spoke again. She would reside there for the rest of her life. After a long illness, Lizzie died at Maplecroft on 01 June, 1927 she was 67 and Emma died at the age 76 only a few days later on 10 June 1927, after a fall down the stairs at her home.
Emma Borden Born March 1, 1851
The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden's Journal Of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History, Vol. 5, No. 4, Issue 24
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 05/28/2012)
Lizzie Borden Born July 19,1860
American Justice:
Lizzie Borden:Bed & Breakfast
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Oct 20, 2010 @ 7:10 pm | delete
- Have you heard the Smothers Brothers song? Its really good.
Yesterday in Old South River Mr Andrew Borden died and they got his daughter Lizzie on a charge of homicide, Some folks say she didn't do it and others say of course she did....
But they all agreed that Lizzie B is a problem kind of kid
'Cause you can't cut your mother up in Massachussets, (Even if its planned as a surprize)
No You can't cut your mother up in Massachusetts, Massachusetts is a far cry from New York.
lol Of course, they did better than I have!
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Twmarsh
Oct 15, 2010 @ 4:31 pm | delete
- Nothing like a good historical mystery, well done!
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skiesgreen
Dec 27, 2009 @ 3:10 am | delete
- This is a great story for a lens. Well researched and great information. Top marks
Norma
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Found in Lizzie's barn
Other ax mysteries
- The Weekly Western Sun
- BRUTAL BUTCHERY, 1878. Vacelet Family Ax Murder Perhaps Knox County's Most Horrendous Crime
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- Louisiana, New Orleans; The Axeman Of New Orleans
- The Villisca Review~Villisca, Iowa,Thursday, June 13, 1912
- It was here, in June 1912, that a horrific mass murder took place
- by Troy Taylor
- A HAUNTING MYSTERY
The Ghosts of the Villisca Ax Murder House
More Axe Murders
Return To Smuttynose Island: And Other Maine Axe Murders
Amazon Price: $20.00 (as of 05/28/2012)
This is a true account of Maine's most famous historical murder cases. The first two chapters look into Maine's first axe murders the Purington Massacre. Then every aspect of the Smuttynose case is covered from the murders, arrest, trial, jailbreak, sentencing and double hanging on the gallows of Maine State Prison at Thomaston
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