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48 Hours

"Lizzie Borden Took an Axe"

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Did Lizzie Borden really hack her parents to death? A surprising answer and an inside look at the haunting crime scene. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

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0:00.0

48 hours in CBS News present season three of My Life of Crime with Aaron Moriarty.

0:08.0

This season join Aaron for extended interviews with convicted murderers.

0:12.4

Go beyond speculation to the evidence. Did our Toro Gotti really commit suicide?

0:18.4

And what happened to Jennifer Dullos? The Connecticut mom still missing almost four years later.

0:24.2

Listen to My Life of Crime from 48 Hours on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:42.8

It's an amazing story. It really is. It's the story of one very unhappy family in a house.

0:49.2

It is a morning like so many other mornings in a small town in New England.

0:57.5

A father, a stepmother, living with his two adult daughters.

1:03.6

Lizzie, 32, and Emma, 41. Lizzie was seen by the next door neighbor and the neighbor

1:11.4

asked what's the matter and she announces that her father has been killed.

1:18.8

Law enforcement personnel arrived and found a gruesome murder.

1:24.8

Two bodies, a lot of blood. There is a husband downstairs, ten wounds to his head,

1:31.6

and almost half of his face is obliterated. And just on the second floor was his wife.

1:38.6

She was faced down with a tremendous amount of injury to the back of her head.

1:46.8

It seems like the most likely murder weapon was a hatchet with a three and a half inch blade.

1:52.6

When someone is struck multiple times with a hatchet to the head, that's personal.

1:59.6

You know, one of the most fascinating parts of this case is that except for around the bodies,

2:05.7

there's no blood found anywhere. You would think that whoever was the perpetrator would be covered

2:11.6

with blood, blood spatter, nothing. Suspicion turned to the people in the house.

2:16.8

And the only people in the house are his daughter and their housekeeper.

2:24.8

It was so shocking for the police to come to the conclusion that the daughter had killed her father

2:32.3

and stepmother. You would have to believe that this sweet seemingly harmless woman did this

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