ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 1

Review of: Lizzie Didn't Do It
Horvath, F
Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University,

Abstract

The title of this volume is, of course, a dead give away. Lizzie Borden, accused of and tried for the gruesome “axe” murder of her mother and father, is, in fact, innocent. Even though she was legally acquitted of the two murders, there was and still is considerable speculation about her true status. This, even though the murders were committed in 1892. The still well-known quatrain, “Lizzie Borden took an axe …”, perhaps reveals more than anything else that this is a case—and a police investigation—that endures in the annals of crime.

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Paper ID: JFS15092J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS15092J
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