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Lizzie Borden | |
Lizzie Borden was born in
1860. She was accused of the killing of her father and stepmother with an Ax
in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. Lizzie was the youngest child born
to Andrew and Sarah Borden. Andrew Borden was a banker and one of the richest
people in Fall River. Unfortunately, when Lizzie was only two years old,
her mother passed away. Her father remarried a few years later and the
marriage supposedly caused discord within the family over inheritance matters
and because of the lower social status of her stepmother’s family.
On August 4, 1892, the gruesome bloody mutilated corpses of Andrew Borden and his wife were found in their home. Lizzie's stepmother had been killed by 19 blows to the skull with an ax, and her father had died of the same! Within a week, police arrested Lizzie Borden for the crime of killing her parents, but fortunately for her, she was acquitted after a sensational murder trial. In spite of the acquittal the Fall River community shunned Lizzie for the rest of her life. Lizzie’s actions, particularly the burning of her bloody dress in the kitchen stove a few days after the murder led many to believe that she was indeed guilty of murdering her parents in cold blood! Lucky Lizzie and her surviving sister split the inheritance. The sisters died a few days of each in June of 1927. A child's rhyme immortalized what allegedly happened on the morning of August 4. “Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” In addition to the rhyme, the Lizzie Borden story has been made into an opera, ballet, a movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie, and the subject of numerous books. Lizzie Borden was very aggressive and strong. In order to kill her father and his wife in such a brutal manner, she had to have very powerful biceps, shoulders and a solid back. Her arms must have over 17 inches and she probably could have curled over 175 lbs. To swing an ax over forty times takes a lot of power and coordination. I’ll bet she was vascular and pumped by the end of the act! She was also very cunning and intelligent to get away with the double murder. Lizzie Borden definitely would have been in the heavyweight class if she were a bodybuilder and an awesome boxer! | |
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