Andrew and Abby Borden are names that are perhaps not as well known as that of their suspected murderer, daughter, Lizzie Borden. Andrew and Abby were parents to Lizzie Borden and on August 4, 1892 they were both found brutally murdered in their home. When the day began, Andrew Borden left home to go to work, leaving his wife, their daughter Lizzie and their Irish maid, Bridget Sullivan at the house. After coming home from work early the same morning he lay on the sofa to take a nap but he would never awaken. According to Lizzie, she came into the living room to find her father dead on the sofa having suffered severe blunt force trauma to the head. Upstairs Lizzie also found her stepmother dead and mutilated much more than her father's body. A later examination by the coroner would find that Abby Borden had been killed almost an hour before her husband died.
Suspicion of the deaths fell on to Lizzie, the couple's daughter after it was found that on August 3 she had tried to purchase poison. Additional suspicion fell when it was discovered that Lizzie had burned a dress in a stove in the home. Lizzie was not the only suspect in the murder though; Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie's Uncle John were also under suspicion. Lizzie Borden would eventually get arrested and tried for the murders but she was acquitted due to circumstantial evidence in June of 1893. Despite being acquitted of the murder charges, Lizzie would continue to be treated as an outcast for the rest of her life in Fall River, Massachusetts where she lived until her death in 1927.
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Mystery / Thriller*graphic warning * I'm interested in this stuff so why not make a book on it these are real life murders that were never solved or I just had to write about them cause they are creepy :) #250 #972 Mystery / Thriller
