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Lizzie Borden: True Story of America's Most Famous Double Murder

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On a humid August morning in 1892, a quiet residence on 92nd Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, became the site of one of the most chilling crime scenes in North American history. Wealthy businessman Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were hacked to death inside their home with a sharp hatchet. Blood pattern evidence, missing timelines, and cold reactions immediately placed spinster daughter Lizzie Borden under intense scrutiny.

With no sign of forced entry, a household fraught with hidden domestic tension, and a string of conflicting statements, the entire nation tuned in through morning newspapers as a high-stakes legal trial unfolded. Despite damning circumstantial evidence and a distinct lack of secondary suspects, twelve male jurors were reluctant to send a wealthy, pious Victorian woman to the gallows, leading to a swift acquittal that left the case officially unsolved.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:00 The Murders of Abby and Andrew Borden

00:04:20 Alternative Suspects: The Illegitimate Son & Uncle Morse

00:06:55 Financial Motives and Local Resentment

00:08:25 The Inquest, Trial, and Media Coverage

00:11:35 Pop Culture Legacy and Modern Borden Lore

00:15:00 Preserving History: The Historical Society Evidence

00:17:25 Lizzie's Later Life on French Street

00:19:10 The Final Theory

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20 Comments

@LauraSilveria-y2f 10 days ago

I was born and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. The legend of Lizzie Borden is ingrained in my psyche. When the Borden house was still connected to Leary Press back in the 1970’s, I spent many an overnight on Second Street. After I was married, we moved directly across from Maplecroft on French Street. We became friendly with the owners and spent some time in that beautiful Queen Anne manor. This new Monster series by Ryan Murphy has my city in an uproar. I understand the need for dramatic license in storytelling, but he’s just blatantly trampling the basic facts of the case. Everything from the Second Street house to the ages of Andrew and Abby to Lizzie’s relationship with Bridget is just wrong. The case is sensational enough on its own. All this embellishment is unnecessary and disrespectful to the Bordens who still reside in the city.

@AlfaRomeo2024 5 days ago

The size of the “mansion” Lizzie and Emma moved into after the murders was only about 300 sq ft bigger than the home on 2nd street. The 2nd street home was 3600 sq ft, still larger than the average home today. This whole myth that the family lived in almost squalor is ridiculous. Lizzie had been on a 9 week vacation to Europe a few years earlier! Can you imagine the cost today to travel Europe for months? Lizzie was a status seeker. She may have blamed her father for her spinsterhood because he didn’t live close to the crowd she wanted to hang out with. It is well documented she was possessive of her father’s wealth and looked at it as almost being hers already. Both Lizzie and Emma were so upset with their father gifting Abby a house for Abby’s sister that Andrew had to give them one as well. Lizzie almost certainly stole from them. I get the impression Andrew did not trust Lizzie one bit. He locked his bedroom door, and insisted all exterior doors stay locked. The family dynamic was certainly one that would invite some level of violence.

@kyleirvine5608 2 weeks ago (edited)

Crazy enough, the Borden descendants related to Lizzie work at the Fire Department my dad works at in Mass.

@MarkGardner-s2f 12 days ago

There was no illegitimate son named William. That was made up later by an author. There was a relative named William Borden who was a cousin, father definitely not Andrew.

How could Lizzie have cleaned up twice so quickly? Corsets required help in and out. Two full bloody outfits would have been there. How was her hair clean, dry and put up minutes after her father's death?

@debbiefrancis211 4 days ago

That background music is terrible and too loud

@ForgottenCrimes26-c6h 10 days ago

great video

@lorikonrad9111 12 days ago

She was found not guilty

@CrystabelKing 13 days ago

That scene in the park looks like Brooklawn Park in New Bedford. I live there and it looks like Brooklawn! LOL

@DecodedMovie-ngf 12 days ago

It was really crazy.

@crazydiamond-b8l 11 days ago

Most of the story is speculation.

@Thecrimefilevault 2 weeks ago

This is so sad 😞 😢

@MafiaSolved 2 weeks ago

Was that the nanny ?

@williamberven-ph5ig 5 days ago

The acid test as to whether the feminism cause is truly about equality is the "reverse the gender test". Men will immediately see the hypocrisy while woman will qualify the situation.

@graciegolding1960 11 days ago (edited)

UH. Lizzie is whacking away at Abby but I don't see any blood soaking her in this clip. Really?? that's a bit hard to believe. Although blood does congeal for people who are already dead. there is brain matter. Hmmm. I heard there was no illegitimate son named William. This is becoming as annoying as the Netflix movie which was bloodier than the wounds to the head would have been, It's a bit sexist to say a woman could not have done this. pfft. really?? I don't think they would have arrested Lizzie if she wasn't behaving in such a fishy manner. I am not saying she necessarily did it on her own. But where there's smoke there's fire.

@kinamai7411 8 days ago

nice

@BobbieJoe6051 2 weeks ago

I can't watch this. When someone says things I know aren't true out of the gate it's over for me. These people ate well. They had fresh milk as well as ice for the ice box delivered every morning. They had food poisoning from Swordfish that had been bought and prepared on the Tuesday before the murder. On the day of the murder, Abby, Andrew and Bridget were all still ill from it. For breakfast, they had banana's, pears, coffee, molasses cookies and they also had left over mutton from the evening before, with the broth. Anyone who has ever suffered from food poisoning knows that broth is soothing to your stomach after something like that.

@tophernheidy 2 weeks ago (edited)

I don’t believe Lizzie committed the murders . She would have had so much blood spatter in her hair and clothes. And a hour and a half between murders. They had no blow dryers or showers for Lizzy to properly cleanup. I know one of the movies gave the senecio of her being naked while committing the murders and although she could’ve committed Abby‘s murder and got cleaned up, but it was 10 minutes after her father was murdered and was found there is no way she can get into her corset, the undergarments all the layers of her clothing within a few minutes to report her dad was murdered. The sheer layer of clothing even if she was naked would take her probably close to 20 minutes of rushing to get dressed. Plus, how would she get all that blood spatter out of her hair? Just with the timeframe alone, she would not have the time to murder both of them, especially the father. Woman are inclined to poisonings not hacking people up with a hatchet, That’s just my opinion.