Detective Lizzie Borden

Notes de l'éditeur

1. Just outside of Boston
2. Mr. Borden was found dead on the first floor in the sitting room and Mrs. Borden was upstairs in the bedroom
3. Andrew Borden was a rich businessman who owned most of Fall River. He had three girls but one, Sarah died when she was only one-year-old. Had a 300,000 dollar estate that would be left to his daughters upon his death. Abby Borden was his second wife and she bore no children. Their marriage was not based on love, but rather convenience. She became the step mother of Andrew’s two living children; Emma and Lizzie.
4. This axe was determined to be the murder weapon. Both of the victims received several blows to their heads and bodies. This hatchet was found in the barn Andrew had 10 blows to the head and Abby had 19.
5. The youngest daughter of Andrew and the stepmother Abby Lived with her family Lived a simple life of a rich girl at the time: she visited with friends, did charity, taught Sunday-school class at church. She had at least 6000 dollars to her name at the time of the murder (testified her sister) She was indifferent towards the murder according to accusers. Alibi- She was in the barn looking for iron sinkers for a fishing line Probable Cause-reasonable grounds
6. Dr. Benjamin Handy’s testimony—read from Be the Judge, Be the Jury; Lizzie Borden Trial page 105.
7. Alibi- an excuse in order to prove innocence
8. Fingerprinting was not available at this time
9. Take 3 minutes to write your own solution in your box on the graphic organizer. No sharing conclusions.
10. Which is a bit funny because it was really 10 and 19 but I guess that didn’t sound as great