Lizzie Borden Retried
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Attorneys, criminal investigators, and a full jury retry the case of Lizzie Borden, who was acquitted of murdering her father and step-mother in their home in 1892.
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| 0:41.7 | Every generation has that one really terrible case that we don't have any answers to. |
| 0:48.9 | On August the 4th, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borton were hacked to death in their full river |
| 0:55.7 | Massachusetts home. Suspicion turned to the people in the house. Any only people in the house |
| 1:02.1 | are his daughter and their housekeeper. It was so shocking for the police to come to the conclusion |
| 1:11.5 | that the daughter had killed her father and stepmother. There is only one plausible explanation. |
| 1:19.2 | Ask just about anyone about the board in case and you're likely to get one response. |
| 1:24.8 | Who do you believe killed Andrew and Abby Borton? Lizzie. Lizzie's responsible for these murders. |
| 1:32.3 | It was Lizzie Borton who intended to murder and did murder Abby and Andrew Borton. |
| 1:38.0 | And yet, at Lizzie Borton's trial, that's not quite how the jury saw it. |
| 1:42.8 | Lizzie Borton was acquitted, so no one has ever been held accountable for the crimes. |
| 1:47.9 | In the summer of 1893, a jury of 12 men acquitted Lizzie Borton because they simply couldn't |
| 1:54.8 | believe that a young church going unmarried woman like Lizzie could be capable of such brutal murders. |
| 2:02.1 | But if not her, then who? |
| 2:06.4 | This is somebody who may have quite literally gone away with murder. |
| 2:10.4 | I'm Erin Moriarty 48 hours and this is my life of crime, the case of Lizzie Borton Part 3. |
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