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Her father was found Butchered on the sofa. Her stepmother was already dead upstairs. Lizzie Borden was home — yet somehow, there was virtually no blood on her.
Then she burned a dress. And That is only the beginning of what makes the Lizzie Borden case so unbelievably strange.
On August 4, 1892, one of the most infamous double murders in American history took place inside the Borden family home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Andrew Borden was discovered dead on the sitting-room sofa, his face horrifically mutilated by repeated blows from a sharp-edged weapon. Upstairs, his wife Abby Borden had already been lying dead for around an hour and a half.
Someone had murdered them both inside their own home.
And Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, was there.
According to Lizzie, she had been outside in the barn shortly before discovering her father’s body. But investigators soon began noticing things that didn’t quite add up.
There was no obvious blood on Lizzie’s clothing. No murder weapon was ever definitively established. Nobody could explain how a killer had apparently murdered Two people at different times inside the house and then seemingly vanished.
Then, three days after the murders, Lizzie was seen burning a dress in the kitchen stove. She claimed it had been ruined by paint. Prosecutors suspected something far more sinister.
Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with murdering Andrew and Abby, beginning one of the most sensational murder trials of the 19th century.
But the case was nowhere near as simple as the famous rhyme would have you believe.
There was no eyewitness. No bloody clothing belonging to Lizzie was recovered. The alleged murder weapon presented its own problems, and controversial evidence — including testimony that Lizzie had allegedly attempted to purchase prussic acid shortly before the murders — was excluded from her trial.
After weeks of extraordinary testimony, the jury deliberated for around 90 minutes. Lizzie Borden was found Not Guilty. She walked out of court a free woman. Nobody else was ever charged with murdering Andrew and Abby Borden.
More than 130 years later, the case remains unsolved.
Because behind the nursery rhyme about “forty whacks” is a disturbing true crime case involving conflicting statements, family tension, inheritance, a mysterious hatchet, a burned dress, controversial evidence and questions that have never been answered.
Did Lizzie Borden really murder her father and stepmother? If she did, how did she commit two extraordinarily violent murders without being covered in blood?
And if Lizzie Didn’t kill them… Who did?
This is the disturbing true story of Lizzie Borden and the 1892 Borden murders — one of America’s most infamous unsolved murder cases. With Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story bringing renewed attention to the case, we’re going back to what actually happened inside the Borden house, the evidence against Lizzie, the evidence that Didn’t fit and the extraordinary trial that allowed her to walk free.
A true crime deep dive into the Lizzie Borden case involving a brutal double murder, infamous hatchet, burned dress, conflicting testimony, family money, Victorian forensic investigation, controversial evidence and one of the most debated acquittals in true crime history.
Podcast: True Crime w/ Anna Templeton