Lizzie Borden: Part 2 | My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
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What is the background of Lizzie Borden and why is she a famous murder suspect?
Hi, 48 hours listeners. It's Erin Moriarty. As you may know, true crime fans are once again being introduced to the story of Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts woman who was once acquitted of the hatchet murder of her parents in 1892. In 2019, we covered the Borden case in a two-part series in the first season of my 48-hour podcast series, My Life of Crime with Aaron Moriarty. Here's part one in its entirety. And be sure to follow the series My Life of Crime with Aaron Moriarty wherever you get your podcasts.
Lizzie Borden took it out and gave her mother 40 wax. When she seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.
Wasn't a lot of time between when she quote unquote discovers her dad and then the police are called and there's no blood found on her. They never found blood soaked dresses and she would have had to be if she was the one who was wielding that hatchet on her stepmom and her dad, wouldn't she have had to have blood spatter on her?
The eternal question Where did the blood go?
I'm Erin Moriarty, forty-eight hours, and this Із майфой. Anyway.
So here I am in Fall River, Massachusetts, for part two of my podcast about one of the most sensational crimes of all time.
Lizzie Borden took an ass and gave her mother 40 wax.
For those who may not know, Lizzie Borden was thirty-two years old when she became the prime suspect in the axe murders of her father, Andrew Borden, and her stepmother, Abby.
When she seen what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.
Now, there's a little poetic license here. Andrew actually had ten or eleven blows to the head, not forty-one. And Abby had seventeen or eighteen. And remember, this was back in eighteen ninety-two. But the fascination with this case is so enduring that the scene of the crime where they were killed is now the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum. And for reasons that are no longer clear to me, I've agreed to sleep here tonight. Leanne Wilbur owns the place. What room
are you
in? I'm in the room that Abby was killed by. Oh good, you took my suggestion. Yes.
Why?
Why did Erin Moriarty spend the night in the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast?
Why Will there be anything I think? No, no,
no. Y you seemed a little hesitant, so I was like, Oh, put her in the murder room.
Of course, of course. Put the one who's most scared in the murder room. We will
be
fine.
So at this point, I say my goodnights, grab my overnight bag, and head for the hallway. At the very top of the stairs is the room where I'm going to spend the night. Come in with me, I'm coming into the room. Because right next to the bed. Right where I'm standing right now. Between a dresser and the bed. Abby Borden was found, face down, Hacked to death. The room itself is actually very nice, although just a little drafty and cold, and I suppose I should have expected that. It's a very old house. The bed is actually extraordinary with this. high backboard that almost goes up to the ceiling. And it would be a very charming, very sweet room if not for the two pictures sitting right on the dresser. One I'm picking it up right now of Abby Borden face down dead.
And this one's even more macabre. There she is, you see her face, and Laying f straight down on the carpet with blood around her head. How charming I get ready for bed. I'm not wearing PJs. I'm actually wearing running clothes just in case I have to make a quick dash. I don't think I'm gonna get a lot of sleep tonight.
What does the murder bedroom look like and what eerie details does Erin notice?
It's now one eleven and I wake up suddenly, but it's not ghosts that are waking me up, it's the cold. I've never slept in a place so cold.
At one hundred thirty I hear voices men, but it's not inside the house. It's outside on the sidewalk. Inside the house, it's dead quiet.
I feel like I'm not sleeping at all, but clearly I am because it's now three AM and for some reason I'm a little warmer than I was. The house doesn't seem quite as cold. Maybe that's because as I heard that Abby Borden is kind of a friendly ghost, a caring ghost, and maybe she's making sure that I'm not quite as cold in her bedroom.
Five forty AM I wake up hearing the sound of birds. I survived the night. Didn't get a lot of sleep, but I survived the night in the Lizzie Borden
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Lizzie Borden and why is she a famous murder suspect?
0:00–2:56
2
Why did Erin Moriarty spend the night in the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast?
2:56–4:58
3
What does the murder bedroom look like and what eerie details does Erin notice?
4:58–7:51
4
How did the 1892 trial begin and what evidence linked Lizzie to the murders?
7:51–10:58
5
What was the prosecution’s theory about motive, opportunity, and the burned dress?
10:58–13:18
6
How did the defense counter the prosecution’s case and argue Lizzie’s innocence?
13:18–15:48
7
What happened in the jury room and why was the verdict a surprising not‑guilty?
15:48–17:57
8
What lasting questions remain about Lizzie Borden’s guilt and her legacy?
17:57–22:48