The Famous Murder Trial’s Killer Discovered
Lizzie Borden’s trial was one of most mysterious and famous murder trials in 1900’s. This murder of Andrew Borden and his wife took place in the Borden’s house on the 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house consisted of Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. About a week after the crime Lizzie was arrested for her father’s and stepmother’s murders; however, in spite of a great deal of evidence, she was acquitted. A look at the evidence of the murder case proves that Lizzie Borden was guilty of her father and stepmother's murder.
On the 4th of August, 1892, Abbey Borden and Andrew …show more content…
In the process, many witnesses pointed out important information that leads to Lizzie as guilty of murders. One witness who was home with Lizzie at the time of the murder, Bridget Sullivan, she “testified that the family did not eat meals together. She also stated that the women took care of their own rooms and that the stepmother never cleaned the daughters’ rooms and vice versa” (Carlson 27). Bridget’s testimony shows that family members did not like each other and did not have a good relationship with each other. Especially, Lizzie’s and her stepmother’s relationship seems to be bad with each other because both of them did their own work by their selves. This proves that Lizzie didn’t have good relationships with her family members, which lead to negative feelings towards them and she ended up murdering her parents. Another witness, Emma Borden, who is the sister of Lizzie testified that Lizzie’s and her stepmother’s relationship was not well with each other; in one situation, their relationship became bitter when her father gave “a piece of property to her stepmother” (Johnson 1:166). This shows how Lizzie did not like her stepmother getting any property, which proves that she hated her stepmother that gave Lizzie a reason to murder her stepmother. In this two scenario, Lizzie’s hatred toward her father and stepmother has been shown to prove that she was guilty of the murder of her