Lizzie Borden -The Full Story of the Axe Murders That Never Got an Answer

The Trial, the Acquittal, and America's Most Infamous Unsolved Mystery

von Alvin J. Pierce

262 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Two victims. One verdict. No answer.At about ten past eleven on a stifling August morning in 1892, a maid resting in a Fall River attic heard her employer's daughter call from below that her father had been killed. Minutes later, a second body was found upstairs. No one in the house, or on the crowded street outside, had noticed anything unusual.Ten months later, Andrew Borden's daughter Lizzie stood trial for both murders. The jury needed about an hour and a half to acquit her. The law was finished with the case. The public never was.Lizzie Borden: The Full Story follows the case from the cotton-mill city and the thrifty, quarrelsome household that produced it, through the murders, the inquest, the arrest, the grand jury and the trial, to the long afterlife of a woman who stayed in Fall River and renamed herself Lizbeth.Built on the testimony given at the inquest, the preliminary hearing and the trial, and on the newspapers of the day, the book lets the witnesses speak and shows where their accounts collide. It marks clearly what is documented, what is disputed, and what is only speculation, and it invents no scenes and no dialogue.Inside you'll find: - The house and the household: Andrew Borden's fortune and frugality, a stepmother, two grown daughters, and the fight over a house that soured a family- The morning, step by step: who was where, who heard what, and the narrow gaps in the timeline- The investigation: a crime scene open to the neighbors, a hatchet head without a handle, and a search that turned up no blood- The courtroom: the evidence the jury heard, the evidence the judges kept from it, and the arguments that decided the outcome- The suspects: the case against Lizzie, the case for reasonable doubt, and the maid, the uncle, the sister and the stranger- The aftermath: Maplecroft, the break with her sister Emma, an actress friend, a bequest to the animals of Fall River, and how a real double murder became a nursery rhyme- Reference pages: a full timeline, a cast of characters, and a day-by-day trial calendarDid she do it? The jury voted to acquit. This book gives you the record they had, the parts they never saw, and the questions no one has answered since.For readers of American history, true crime, and the cases that won't stay closed.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176022148
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published