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Lizzie Borden was suspected of killing her parents,even though she didnt get charged for anything because they never found out who really did it. The maid was also a suspect and so was Lizzie's sister.Most likely i believe that LIzzie Borden actually did kill her parents,they were both hit with an axe several times.Here is the riddle that gpes with Lizzie Bored:

Lizzie Borden had an axe,

gave her mother 40 whacks,

When she'd seen what she had done,

gave her father 41.

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Lizzie Borden was an unmarried church going woman accused axing her relatives in a house situated on 92 Second Street - Fall River, Massachusetts. She was acquitted.

Unlike some other historical crimes the Borden case has not been stripped of evidence from the offical files. Murders such as the Black Dahlia and Jack The Ripper have had most of the evidence philfered out of the files until almost nothing remains. Not so with Lizzie.

The murder of Andrew Borden came 1 1/2 hours after his wife Abbey. The way the crimes were committed is consistant with a victim/attacker relationship. In other words they probably knew each other as opposed to a stranger. The large time gap between the murders tells of a person who was comfortable in the house and was familiar with the layout of the rooms. It is rare for a stranger to wait in an unfamiliar house with other family present for the length of time that this killer did.

There were dynamics between the Bordens over money with Lizzie furious with her father and a continued hatred toward her stepmother. The day before the murders everyone including Bridget the maid got sick from stew. Lizzie claimed she too was feeling ill yet she testified she was well enough to eat Pears in the barn. Before her arrest a week later she was seen burning a dress that had 'paint' stains. A broken hatchet with stains on it was found in the Borden's basement. In the days and weeks after the murders Lizzie changed her story many times, she couldn't seem to stick to one story. She was still contradicting herself even on the witness stand at her trial.

So the evidence says the crimes were most likely comitted by a family intimate that had great rage toward the victims and had no problem waiting in the house for an hour and a half and risked discovery by the Lizzie or Bridget. It does happen that offenders will wait for a victim to return home and then attack. It's another story for them to wait that long with others in the house, then kill two people without detection. Lizzie and her sister were the only people that would have benefited from the death of the older Bordens, and we already know Emma was in another town miles away. That leaves Lizzie. Logically speaking, she is the only one that could have committed these murders.

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