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13th Juror Podcast

The Prosecution of Lizzie Borden

13th Juror Podcast

Audiochuck

Society & Culture, Government, True Crime, Documentary, News

4.6897 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The evidence seemed damning: a locked house, a vanished note, and a hatchet in the cellar. But could the prosecution really prove Lizzie Borden guilty beyond doubt? Step into the courtroom where America’s most notorious murder trial unfolded.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've all seen it happen.

0:02.0

A shocking crime splashes across the headlines and captures the attention of the nation.

0:06.9

The public eagerly awaits any sort of update, a piece of evidence revealed, a new lead, an interesting

0:13.4

clue.

0:14.4

Eventually, guilt is debated, verdicts are decided, and, just as quickly as the media frenzy

0:20.7

begins, it ends, and the world moves on.

0:24.8

But not in this case.

0:27.8

More than 130 years later, we're still talking about the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, a crime so brutal, so sensational, it became one of the most legendary cases in

0:41.2

American history, a story that echoes through generations in books, plays, films, even an eerie

0:48.5

nursery rhyme. It's 1892, and the Bordons are a prominent family in Fall River, Massachusetts.

0:55.5

69-year-old Andrew Borden is one of the city's wealthiest men, and notoriously frugal.

1:01.5

His wife and two daughters, Emma and Lizzie, are pillars of the community, active in church,

1:06.7

charity, and temperance leagues. They're respectable, well-known, even envied. But behind this polished

1:15.3

facade, life inside the Borden home is far more complicated, and on the morning of August 4,

1:21.1

1892, their home would become the scene of one of the most shocking crimes of the century.

1:30.9

Andrew Borden was brutally murdered as he napped on his living room sofa.

1:35.8

His wife, Abby, was found half an hour later, faced down in the guest room upstairs,

1:39.5

struck 19 times in the back of the head with a hatchet.

1:49.2

The brutality stunned the town of Fall River, but even more shocking was who police accused, Andrew's own daughter, Lizzie Borden.

1:55.5

Her arrest ignited a media firestorm and led to one of the most notorious trials in history.

2:03.9

Today, the case still fascinates and divides, posing the same haunting question. Did Lizzie Borden get away with murder? The prosecution says she's a cold-blooded killer. The defense says she's a loving daughter,

2:10.9

but it's the jurors who have the final say. This is 13th juror podcast, where we break down real court

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