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Over a hundred years later the Lizzie Borden case still fascinates. It was Americas first widely covered murder trial, and its shocking details and unsolved conclusion have inspired books, plays, even an opera. On August 4, 1892, in the small town of Fall River Massachusetts, Andrew Borden, and his second wife Abby Borden were murdered, both by blows to the head from an axe or hatchet. That morning at 11 am Lizzie called upstairs to the Borden’s maid Bridget. She yelled that someone had killed her father and commanded her to run across the street to get a doctor. After the doctor arrived Bridget and a neighbor went upstairs to find Mrs. Borden, and found her on the floor of the guestroom, dead. Lizzie Borden was the thirty-two year old youngest daughter of Andrew. She and her older sister Emma were both unmarried and lived at home. Even though Andrew was one of the wealthiest citizens in town, he lived with his family in a house with no running water or electricity in poorer part of town. Lizze was the key suspect of the murders. When questioned, she said she had been in the family’s barn eating pears in the loft. No footprints were found in the barn and the temperature that day was over 100 degrees, too ho