🎵 LIZZIE BORDEN: Her Story, Her Voice, Her Axe | Blues | True Crime

On the morning of August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered with a hatchet inside their own home. Abby, Lizzie’s stepmother, was struck 18–19 times, most of them to the back of the head. Andrew, her father, was killed roughly 90 minutes later, slashed and bludgeoned in the face as he lay on the sitting room couch.

There were no signs of forced entry. The doors were locked. Only Lizzie and the maid were home.

And yet—Lizzie Borden was acquitted.

She never took the stand during her trial in June 1893, but the evidence against her raised chilling questions. Her account of the morning kept changing: she was ironing, then eating pears, then searching for fishing sinkers in the barn. Investigators found no footprints in the dusty loft where she claimed to be. A hatchet with a broken handle was discovered in the basement, clean and suspiciously convenient.

Shortly after the murders, Lizzie was seen burning a dress in the kitchen stove. She said it had “paint on it.” Many believed it had something else.

Yet, she remained calm. Too calm. She showed no visible bloodstains. And she fit the mold of a proper Victorian lady: refined, well-mannered, from a respectable family. The jury, all men, couldn’t believe a woman like her could be capable of such savagery.

In a single hour, she went from suspect to free woman. And she never faced justice again.

This song imagines what she never said aloud.

The part of her no court heard.

The voice behind the composure.

The confession hidden in lace.
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