Lizzie Borden: Why We Still Can't Bury the Hatchet

DAWN gagnon

There are few stories in American history, that still haunt and mystify us like the story of Lizzie Borden. We are all familiar with the gruesome images of Mr. Borden strewn across his sofa in the home's parlor, while wife Abby Borden's body is lying face down in a pool of her own blood in an upstairs bedroom. Do we have a fascination with the macabre? Or is it the mystery that surrounds the murders that keeps us searching?
It has been over one hundred years since that day in August of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts , and we find ourselves unable to resist the urge to watch any and every documentary that presents itself on television. What is it about the 32 year old bible study teacher, that captivates us still? Is it that mischievous glare that we can't pull away from in her photographs? Or is it those eyes that seem to have a secret hiding deep within them? Why does she still captivate us long after the fact?

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