Who killed Lizzie Bordens parents

dov, I saw a movie about Lizzie once with Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched fame. The plot reconstructed exactly how she went about it.

Still remember the little rhyme:

Lizzie Borden took an axe,
Gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

Think I might have the order reversed, however.

Yes, I think that Lizzie did it.

Whether or not she did, it is certain that the defense very adroitly used the late 19th century image of women in general, and a "maiden" daughter in particular, to gain sufficient sympathy from the jury for an acquittal.

Lizzie's a distant relative of the gf. I sleep with one eye open.

Hope she doesn't have an axe to grind with you, Patio.

Me too.

She is a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of gal, though...

Agnes De Mille certainly thought it was Lizzie as per her superb moving ballet. "Fall River Legend". The sight of Lizzie coming out of the house in her blood covered slip and displaying a stunned and tortured gaze is one which is probably permanently etched in my mind.

I took a trip to the Borden House and did the tour. I say it was Lizzie and the maid, Bridget Sullivan together. It adds up if you look at the situation that day.

I know people who had family members associated with the Bordan's. mostly grandparent, great aunt's and the like. One has some of the furnishings from the house. The general consensus is that Lizzie did it.

Who Killed Lizzie Bordens Parents?
I have been researching the subject of Lizzie Borden for the last month and from the information that i have gathered from non-fictional books, encyclopedias, and interenet websites i would have to say that she was the only person who could have killed her parents. I dont believe however that "Maggie" (Bridget Sullivin) the maid took any part of the crime but was silenced by Lizzie. I believe that Lizzie had threatened her and that is why the day of the murders "Maggie" spent the night at a neighbors house and never returned to the Borden home to stay but only for a few hours to collect her things and leave and while she did so her close friend was with her. While lizzie was on trial she flip-flopped her story many times and denied things that 3 or 4 ppl eye witnessed such as her burning her dress in the stove a day after the murder and burning an axe handle only a few hours after the police came to the crime scene. The muder weapon an axe or hachet was found in the basement were the handle was missing and the blade was swipped clean. Because lizzie was a women she was therefore an "impossible" suspect because a woman could never do a deed like that so to say. Just the day before the murders Lizzie went to the drug store asking for purssic acid and the owner would not give it to her, she had the means of poisoning and killing her parents with it. Later on in the trial she denied even having knowledge of the drug store exsisting although it was a few blocks from her home and had been there for 14 years. three eye witnesses were also able to indentify Lizzie being in the drug store not once that week but twice. Lizzie was arrested 1 week after the murders and was in jail for 9 months before her trial were she was "innocent" in the eyes of the jury. She died in her later years and her sister lived with her up to lizzies early 50' s , Emma (lizzies sister) moved out and never spoke to lizzie again after they had an arguement. i wonder what the arguement was about? N E ways considering all that information it is plainly clear that lizzie borden did indeed kill her parents and then denied ever doing so and switched her story around so much it would be impossilbe for anyone to see her as anything but guilty. I guess sometimes the "bad guy" does get away...

DEFF.

Re: Who Killed Lizzie Bordens Parents?
Some peaple sip from the fountain of youth, others just gargle..

lizzy
i thought it was lizzy, i did a report on it a long time ago :

lizzy borden took an axe, gave her father forty wacsk....something i dont know

Keyser Soze killed Lizzie Borden's parents:
Source:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058163523

Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one . . .

Does that mean she loved her father one whack more then her mother?

Well, i believe it was her step-mother.