Lizzie Borden Forensics

From the Discovery Channel documentary "Lizzie Borden Had an Axe." Professor Tom Mauriello and Detective Tom Lange of OJ Simpson fame, look at the handleless hatchet and Abby's scarf.

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• Lizzie
• Borden
• Fall
• River
• hatchet
• Stefani
• Koorey
• true
• crime
• History

[calico26]

does anyone have the whole documentary?

[Cissy2cute]

I have to add this: do you think it worthwhile to try and get the Discovery Channel to release this episode on DVD? I would love to watch it several times and be able to study it more closely. Perhaps if enough people write them, they may consider it. There are other shows on Lizzie available; why not this one, which to me is the most interesting and contains excellent analyses of this case.

But perhaps there are legal impediments, in which case we probably won't see a DVD anytime soon :(

[loner1878]

I was in Thomas Mauriello's criminalistics class at UMD! He showed us part of the doc in lecture, I have to say he told us he was not happy with some of the theories presented in this documentary for dramatic purposes. Great prof though :)

[TheBookWorm1718]

@XByTheShoreX You would hope so anyway, I'd hate to think you could be conscious for all of that and feel it.

[KayBeeEee1983]

Um, does anyone else notice that Abby's scarf is torn to shreds, with many cut marks of varying sizes? They could have just gone from 1 tear to the next until they found one that fit the axe.

[Adarvuli]

see, thats a good start - NOW SOLVE THE FUCKING CASE

[Adarvuli]

@wircolac how come?

[TheLadyMaul]

@silvereagle2061 The same kind of hatchet was in at least half the houses in Fall River. So what they really proved was that a hatchet of that size was the murder weapon -- not that that particular hatchet was. Not the same thing.

[saddlesablazin]

The case is already solved. Lizzie did it. Even back then there was enough evidence to convict. She got away because the jury couldn't believe a woman could commit such a horrible crime.

[gotch09]

@TheBookWorm1718 Didn't take long to figure out that Lizzie had anger management problems with her step mother.And it doesn't take someone with Einstein's i.q. to add that 2+2 and come up with 4.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@gotch09 But the stepmother got more overkill than the father did, Andrew had his skull slashed in 13 times, Abby was attacked 18 times, yes, obviously hostility and more overkill, but it seems more so aimed at Abby.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@anursewhocares I never thought about the possibility that Lizzie had a partner, in fact I don't know if anybody ever did, they always make it out like she did it alone, but YES, good question, and I was wondering the same thing the other day, HOW could anybody in the house at the time of the murder not hear anything? Andrew was supposedly asleep but Abby was tidying up the room, she would be conscious when she was attacked, wouldn't she have screamed?