Cara Robertson - The Trial of Lizzie Borden - History Author Show 

Great episode! Thank you both!!

I’m from Fall River never heard of it till I left mass as a kid

No one else could have done this

I think Lizzie did it because when her daddy came in from work to take a nap. Lizzie came down from being upstairs. He asked her where Abby was, Lizzie said she went out to see a sick friend. Why lie? The housekeeper had been out scrubbing windows. So Lizzie was alone inside for a while. I also think she picked that day because her uncle had been there the night before and they would've been more suspicious of a man than a woman at that time.

I could understand why there was no noise from upstairs when Abbey was attacked, if it had been suddenly from the back. But the first blow was from the front. So why did she not cry out or make a noise? Even if Lizzie had done it, shouldn't the maid have heard something? An outcry? A thud?

I have always found it interesting that whoever murdered the victims only struck them in and around the head nowhere else

I’m halfway convinced her uncle did it and the timeline was fudged a bit. There’s another interesting possibility though. There was a nearby farmhouse where, in the middle of the day the woman who worked and lived there was murdered with an axe while the family were away. She was killed with an axe and no apparent motive. No real robbery. They arrested a farmhand who was made to confess, and he supposedly led police to a place where a coin from the house was found hidden. That was allegedly the motive for the attack. It’s strange to me bc why take a single item of little worth and then hide it in a random location in a field instead of keeping it or using it or stealing anything else at all from the residence? Why do it in broad daylight? Why kill her at all? The house had a barn and there were plenty of other things to steal. To kill her with an axe without any apparent interference of a sexual nature (although it’s possible the motive was sexual). The man was not in jail at the time of the Borden murders. This happened within days of the Borden murders, only a few miles away. The accused was an immigrant. The only outsider who would have been immediately suspected and if he hadn’t done it, he’d be most likely have been convicted, regardless. A confession and a piece of nominal evidence are just securities for conviction uncontested.

It’s all weird

there was a cloth need be look at