Have modern forensic and crime solving techniques been applied to the Lizzie Borden case?

Answer 1

Since the Borden case is 120 years old this August the case has been re-evaluated using modern crime solving tools that were not available until recently. Using blood-detection chemicals such as Luminol, criminal profiling, opportunity and motive of the most likely suspects, what remains of the physical evidence were all re-considered with the same results that police arrived at in 1892. Lizzie Borden had the motive, personality, opportunity, and was in fact the only person that all the 'pieces' fit as to the person that most likely was the killer.

She kept changing her story, burned a dress with red 'paint' on it, was one of only two people at the scene of the crime, had ample motive and opportunity and had the personality traits that would have made such a crime a distinct possibility. She was a cleptomaniac and had a problem with telling the truth at times. Since all in the Borden house were ill after eating mutton stew after Lizzie was refused by the pharmacist the purchase of prussic acid (sodium of cyanide) just the day before the murders is certainly suspicious. No doubt she poisoned the stew with the prussic acid that was available at the Borden residence. When that didn't do the trick she tried unsuccessfully to buy more but was refused due to a lack of a doctor's prescription.

Since the 120 years when Lizzie 'discovered' her father hacked to death in the parlor of their home at 92 Second Street, Fall River MA, there have been numerous books, movies and speculation about the real killer of Andrew and Abbey Borden. The theory of a stranger is ridiculous. Abbey Borden was killed an hour and a half before her husband. No stranger would have been able to kill Abbey in the upstairs bedroom, hide within the house for all that time, kill Andrew Borden in the front parlor, and make his/her escape, all without detection by Lizzie or the Borden's maid Bridgette, both of whom had been walking from room to room doing daily chores.

The Borden's houseguest John Vinnicum Morse, had an aliby that was solid and proveable, Bridgette the maid had no reason to kill her employers. There was no homicidal maniac running loose in Fall River at that particular time, ect. All of the evidence still points to the most likely killer and that is Lizzie herself.