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Lizzie Borden: The Full Story Behind the 1892 Fall River Murders, the Trial That Followed, and the Verdict That Never Settled the Question
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ISBN13: 9798176602159
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forty whacks. Twenty-nine wounds. One question that has never actually been answered.
On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death inside their own locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The only people confirmed to be home: a maid scrubbing windows outside, and Andrew's thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Ten months later, a jury took barely an hour to acquit her. No one else was ever charged. A hundred and thirty years on, the case still isn't settled, and the schoolyard rhyme everyone knows gets almost everything about it wrong.
On the morning of August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death inside their own locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The only people confirmed to be home: a maid scrubbing windows outside, and Andrew's thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Ten months later, a jury took barely an hour to acquit her. No one else was ever charged. A hundred and thirty years on, the case still isn't settled, and the schoolyard rhyme everyone knows gets almost everything about it wrong.
This is not another retelling built on rumor, ghost stories, or the dramatic license of the series that just brought Lizzie Borden back into the spotlight. This book was built from the ground up on the actual historical record: the 1892 inquest transcript, the full 1893 trial testimony, contemporary newspaper coverage, and the private letters of the prosecutor who tried the case, letters that reveal even he wasn't sure he'd gotten it right.
Inside, you'll walk the actual timeline minute by minute: the locked doors and buried inheritance disputes, the poison that vanished the day before the murders, the burned dress a friend watched go into the stove, the inquest testimony so damning it was never allowed near a jury. You'll sit through the trial itself, from the fainting spell to the dueling arguments over what a woman's hands could and couldn't do, to the verdict that took less time to reach than it takes to eat dinner. Then you'll follow Lizzie into the thirty-four isolated years that came after, in the grand house she bought to escape the modest one where it happened.
Every claim in this book is checked against the primary record. Where credible sources disagree, this book tells you so.
The rhyme has always claimed to know who did it. This book shows you exactly what the record actually proves, and what, even now, it still doesn't.
Scroll up and click Buy Now to start reading the case the jury never fully saw.
Inside, you'll walk the actual timeline minute by minute: the locked doors and buried inheritance disputes, the poison that vanished the day before the murders, the burned dress a friend watched go into the stove, the inquest testimony so damning it was never allowed near a jury. You'll sit through the trial itself, from the fainting spell to the dueling arguments over what a woman's hands could and couldn't do, to the verdict that took less time to reach than it takes to eat dinner. Then you'll follow Lizzie into the thirty-four isolated years that came after, in the grand house she bought to escape the modest one where it happened.
Every claim in this book is checked against the primary record. Where credible sources disagree, this book tells you so.
The rhyme has always claimed to know who did it. This book shows you exactly what the record actually proves, and what, even now, it still doesn't.
Scroll up and click Buy Now to start reading the case the jury never fully saw.
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