Lizzie's awareness of Abby's Whereabouts.....

[camgarsky4]

This is not a new revelation, but a reminder of one of many 'guilt indicators' with Lizzie's statements and actions on the day of the murders.
Below are extracts from Dr. Bowen's inquest and Bridget Sullivan's preliminary hearing testimonies. The amount of time which passed between the conversations which Bowen and Bridget describe is 5-10 minutes....so we'll pick 7 minutes to reference against.

Dr. Bowen Inquest testimony:
Q. What was said about the mother, if anything?
A. There was an inquiry made, I don't know whether I made it, somebody said, where is Mrs. Borden, where is Mrs. Borden? Lizzie said, I think, I think she said, "she had a note this morning to go and see a sick friend". That is all, such a serious affair as that, I did not stop, and could not do anything, I was satisfied of that, In that time I said I must go and get some of the officers right off, perhaps I said I would get the officers. Lizzie said that Emma was in Fairhaven and wanted me to telegraph her. Before I went out, she said if you telegraph her, perhaps she will come on this noon train. I went directly across to my house, and told my wife, and told her about telegraphing. I was satisfied she could not come on the noon train direct, so my boy drove me down to the telegraph office, and I telegraphed to Miss Emma Borden.

Bridget Sullivan Preliminary Hearing testimony:
Q. Was anything more said then that you remember of?
A. No Sir.
Q. What did you do then?
A. We were talking, I said I would like to know where Mrs. Borden was. I said I would go over to Mrs. Whitehead's. She said she would like us to search for Mrs. Borden: she told us to go and search for her. I said I would go over there, if I knew where the house was. She said she was positive she heard her coming in and would not we go upstairs and see.
Q. Who said that?
A. Miss Lizzie Borden. I said I would not go upstairs, and Mrs. Churchill said she was willing to go with me; so, me and Mrs. Churchill went up the front stairs. There we found Mrs. Borden.

During this span of ~7 minutes, Lizzie's knowledge of Abby Borden whereabouts evolves from Abby being out of the house calling on a sick friend to Lizzie being positive she heard Abby come back into the house.

Each of us must determine for ourselves how likely it is that both of these statements were contrived by Lizzie based on how she was wanting her 'audience' to react and respond.

One possibility is that Lizzie realized that Dr. Bowen, in addition to sending the telegram, might indeed fetch the police. I haven't come up with a reasonable reason why, but perhaps Lizzie wanted both bodies discovered before law enforcement arrived on the scene.

[Inspector]

Bowen seems to trigger the search because his testimony indicates to me, he’s in a hurry to go notify police. Lizzie appears to wait until Bowen leaves, and gives him an assignment which further delays him , and for whatever reason, Bowen also stops by the drug store on the way back.

Before Bowen goes for police, Lizzie is concerned about notifying Emma, and the moment he’s gone, she’s concerned about finding Abby upstairs .

Who knows why?