How Lizzie Borden Walked Free

How Lizzie Borden Fooled Everyone On a sweltering August morning in 1892,

Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally murdered with a hatchet in their Fall River

home. There was no sign of a break-in and nothing was stolen. Suspicion immediately

fell on the only person with the opportunity to commit both murders: their 32-year-old,

church-going daughter, Lizzie. Her alibi was unbelievable. She claimed to be in the barn looking

for fishing sinkers while her father was being killed just feet away. Police later noted

the stiflingly hot loft had no footprints in the thick dust to prove she'd been there.

Just days after the murders, after being told she was a suspect, Lizzie was seen