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1892: Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
Goodbye Lizzie Borden
What you need to know before your trail
Charged with killing her father and stepmother with an axe in 1893, Lizzie Borden became the center of perhaps the most baffling murder trial in United States legal history. Sullivan returns to the original court documents to solve the mystery of how the woman celebrated in folk rhymes as a killer got off scot-free. Illustrated.
Travel Guide
Fall River MA
This was the town where the infamous events of 1892 when Lizzie Borden was put on trial for the murder of her stepmother Abby and her father. She remained the prime suspect up until her death in 1927 and no one else was ever convicted of the crime . She could never live a normal life however since she was practically ostracized by the locals
The book looks into her past – her early trauma following her mother’s death and her cruel sister who turns Lizzie against their stepmother. Added to this a hard and lonely life made worse by the miserly habits of her father and Lizzie lived a world of torment. They were well off in those days but the father chose to live without running water and other luxuries of the time.
Lizzie has little self-esteem and seems to be increasingly fixated on blood. A woman in a cage, desperate to break free..
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Author/Guide: Robert Sullivan Destination: Fall River Departure Time: 1892
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