snokkums @ Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:13 am wrote:I was in the crime library on this site and I was reading the article, "History of the Crimes". After reading this, I am beginning to believe that lizzie did it.
Nineteen times she flailed away in fury at the older woman, giving vent to a long surpressed hatred, hacking out a five inch hole in the skull and chopping much of the head to ribbons".
This doesn't sound like a woman that really likes her stepmother, let alone love her. She also told her father when he came home that Abbey had gone out after receiving a note to call out a sick friend. The note was never found, nor does any body remembers writing the note, noone remembers it being delievered and noone remembers abbey going out to visit them because of the note.
It also seeems that everyone was excitingly moving about the house after the murders, but she was very calm, even correcting a policeman when he called abbey her mother, she said she's my stepmother.
She visited a friend and during the course of a strange converstion, dolefully predicted that something strange soon would happen at thier home, a prediction which was filled with remarkable speed."
Makes me wander if she hadn't already planned the murders. Also the doors were locked when Mr. Bordon came home, and the maid had unbolt the front door to let in MR. Bordon. Also Lizzie tried to get Bridget to go into town telling her that there was some cheap cotton on sell, but she went to her third story room.
The motive would have been
a long smoldering feud between her step mother over fathers' fortune, and Lizzie feared that he was rewriting his will against her.
Seems like everything in this particular article is pointing right to Lizzie
First, let's clean up these quotes. I'm unsure of what this post means so it might be a combination of website quote and snokkums. That would be a bit unfair to snokkums And Radin.
Here is the first sentence posted by snokkums from the website, Crime Library:
"Nineteen times she flailed away in fury at the older woman, giving vent to long-suppressed hatred, hacking out a five-inch hole in the skull and chopping much of the head to ribbons."
This quote is from:
"History of the Crimes"
"Edited from Edward Radin. Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1961."
At
http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/CrimeLibrary.htm
I believe the next sentences are skokkums opinions:
"This doesn't sound like a woman that really likes her stepmother, let alone love her. She also told her father when he came home that Abbey had gone out after receiving a note to call out a sick friend. The note was never found, nor does any body remembers writing the note, noone remembers it being delievered and noone remembers abbey going out to visit them because of the note.
It also seeems that everyone was excitingly moving about the house after the murders, but she was very calm, even correcting a policeman when he called abbey her mother, she said she's my stepmother."
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We must admit it doesn't sound like Mr. Radin.
"That same night she visited a friend and, during the course of a strange conversation, dolefully predicted that "something" soon would happen at their home, a prediction which was fulfilled with remarkable speed."
--This is a quote which is Radin from the site but which is truncated in the post, leaving out the first words of the beginning of the sentence: "That same night..."
Then, included in the Radin quote is snokkums opinion:
"Makes me wander if she hadn't already planned the murders. Also the doors were locked when Mr. Bordon came home, and the maid had unbolt the front door to let in MR. Bordon. Also Lizzie tried to get Bridget to go into town telling her that there was some cheap cotton on sell, but she went to her third story room."--
which sounds like snokkums. Next is a quote from Radin:
"...a long smoldering feud with her stepmother over her father's fortune and Lizzie feared that he was rewriting his will against her."
Then, snokkums:
"Seems like everything in this particular article is pointing right to Lizzie
"
Whew- this was an autopsy. I did suggest snokkums go to mine the website and/or the archives instead of going on the internet. I'm sorry the quote feature is so confusing, snokkums. If I have misquoted you, please let me know.