Lizzie
Borden
1860-1927
Despite the nursery rhyme, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of
the 1892 hatchet murders of her father and
stepmother because the men on the jury could not believe that such a
proper young lady would do such terrible things.
Aside from the victims, only two people were
at home
during the murders, Lizzie Borden and the maid, Brigette Sullivan, and
most writers have assumed that one or the other of them did it.
Of those two, Lizzie acted the most suspiciously, such as trying to buy
poison before, burning a stained dress afterward, and showing less
shock and anguish than one might expect when one's family is murdered
in the next room.
The two murders were an hour and a half apart, so that kind of rules
out a wandering stranger who would have to hide somewhere in the house
without killing Lizzie or Brigette and hope no one
discovered the first murder before he struck again. Then he'd have to
escape down the street drenched in blood.
No one else was ever charged in the
murders because the authorities were sure they got it right the first
time.
How lesbian was she?
We've got two suspects: Lizzie Borden and
Brigette Sullivan. Instead of either/or, why not both?
Of course cooperating and keeping it secret would require a strong bond
between them, so ... lesbian lovers? And maybe the reason investigators
never found clothes soaked in blood is because they did their killing
naked.
Just
imagine it. I'll give you a few minutes.
More convincingly: Later in life Lizzie became close friends with the actress Nance
O'Neil. We don't know what was going on, but Lizzie followed her like a groupie, threw lavish
parties for Nance and her troupe and paid Nance’s legal expenses in
contractual disputes with theater owners.
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