Let's start with Lizzie. Who was she? Take a look at a surviving picture.
Do you think
this woman killed her dad and stepmother?
Lizzie's father, Andrew Jackson Borden - a very prominent, wealthy man - was close to Lizzie. Did his devoted daughter sneak up on her father and nearly chop off his head while Andrew was sleeping on the sofa? Would a loving daughter create such a gruesome crime scene?
Andrew, who had visited a building he owned earlier in the morning of August 4, 1892, was actually killed about ninety minutes after Abby Borden was hacked to death. Some folks figured the murderer didn't want Andrew to find his wife dead in the upstairs guest bedroom. Other folks figured Andrew was doomed whether he found Abby or not.