An Unlikely Murderer

One would think that crimes with such a “gruesome nature” would be committed by “a hatchet-wielding maniac” as put by Russell Aiuto (1). But rather, the suspect was that of “a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-daughter”(Aiuto 1). The young woman, Lizzie Borden, was charged with the killing of her father and stepmother, “a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy” (Aiuto 1). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to research the life and trial of Lizzie Borden in …

…it, thinking it would go away. But it did not. It stayed in a place in history, a place that would be remembered forever. Bibliography Works Cited Aiuto, Russell. “Lizzie Took an Ax.” Crime Library. Online. Yahoo. Feb. 4 2000. Paton, John ed. et al. “The Hatchet Woman of Fall River.” Crimes and Punishment. 3 (1985): 432-440 Radin, Beatrice H. “Borden, Lizzie Andrew.” Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed. Sams, Ed. “The Mind of Lizzie Borden.” Yellow Tulip Press. Online. Yahoo. Feb. 4 2000.