NOT GUILTY! 100 Years Before OJ: Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With MURDER?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lizzie Borden was arrested days after the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. Her trial was held the following June. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack finish telling the story of what happened in the Borden home that fateful August morning and the investigation that followed. Professor Morgan explains how the heads of both victims were removed and what it took to prepare the skulls to appear in court for the trial of Lizzie Borden.
It is no secret that Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. The case remains an unsolved homicide.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

01:10.88 Timeline of Borden murders

03:25.18 Bodies in state of decay

07:09.39 What happens to injuries one week later

12:30.25 Mr and Mrs Borden both wore dentures

17:25.23 Borden ladies familiar with hatchet

22:55.84 Who was the target?

28:36.97 Mr Borden was large man

33:52.18 Injuries were vicious

39:21.22 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:08.8	One of the things that I love about autopsy reports that predate modern times, and certainly both of the Borden's autopsy reports do that indeed, is that they
0:25.9	transport you back to a time where I think that many of us have so placed this case on a pedestal,
0:46.6	so kind of sealed it in the past, that we don't really fully appreciate true violence.
0:48.0	And guess what?
0:58.5	The violence in the 1890s was just as real as it is in the 21st century.
1:05.7	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybags.
1:09.5	Dave, give me this time frame again.
1:19.3	The homicides took place in... August 4th at, well, between 9.30 in the morning and 1115.
1:22.6	And the autopsies took place.
1:23.8	That was on August 4th.
1:28.9	The autopsies took place seven days later on August 11th at 1115 a.m.
1:32.5	So we're talking, it's seven days later.
1:34.1	Yeah, seven days later.
1:35.5	And this is in August.
1:37.2	And I don't care if it is Massachusetts.
1:38.3	August is warm.
1:38.9	All right.
1:42.0	By the way, beautiful place to go.
1:46.7	I haven't been to Fall River, but I've been to Massachusetts in the summertime.
1:52.5	The weather compared to Alabama's delicious that time of year.
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