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Fall River, Massachusetts August 4th, 1892, the hottest day of the year, *** sweltering 100 degrees. Lizzie Borden lived here with her father, stepmother, and sister just before noon, someone took *** hatchet and hacked Andrew and Abby Borden to death. Lizzie was arrested and charged, but *** jury found her not guilty. Was it Emma, her sister, Bridget, the maid, an uncle who was staying there, or someone else? 100 years later, one of the most famous crimes in history is still unsolved. Do you think Lizzie did it? Until somebody can convince me who else it was, I will, I will, I would say that I'm afraid she did do it. No, I don't have any. I think she did it. You think she did it? I do. Lizzie Borden. If she did not swing the ax, she knows who did. The Bordens were an influential family in Fall River. Lizzie's father, Andrew Borden was *** wealthy man who made his fortune in the textile industry, but his penny pinching was legendary. Much has been made of the mutton stew, which was served for breakfast. It was 4 days old on *** stifling hot August day. Uh, Andrew Borden was frankly *** skinflint, and he served the mutton stew not out of any sadistic desire to poison his family, but because it was cheaper than buying *** fresh piece of meat. Uh, well, the theory is that Lizzy just went bananas. This was the last proof that he was saving all his money and giving it to the mother, the stepmother instead. Lizzie and Emma hated their stepmother, so they refused to eat with her and referred to her only as Mrs. Borden. As history books tell it, on the day of the murders, Abby and Andrew Borden sat down to breakfast around 7:30 along with Uncle John Morris, *** house guest. The three ate the mutton stew at about 9 o'clock. Andrew left for work and Uncle John headed into town. Lizzie had breakfast sometime later. Bridget, the maid went outside to clean windows. While Abby Borden was upstairs dusting the guest room, someone crept in and delivered 18 blows to her head with *** hatchet. The room was awash in blood. Bridget Sullivan and Lizzie, the only two at home at the time, claimed they heard nothing. What about Bridget Sullivan, you think she knew what happened? I don't see how she could have been there that day without wondering what had happened. No, whether she knew more than she said, how could you be washing windows either inside or outside in *** house with Mr. Spar and with *** heavy woman? There must have been something that sounded different to her that day. At 10:30 that morning, Andrew Borden came home for *** rest. Lizzie greeted him at the door. He took off his jacket and sat down on the sofa. Lizzie told the jury she went out to the barn for something, and when she returned, her father's crumpled body lay on the sofa, his head smashed, and blood splattered on the walls and floor. When Lizzie saw what had happened, she shouted to Bridget, and they both ran to *** neighbor for help. While waiting for the police, someone asked about Abby. Earlier, Lizzie had told Bridget that Abby went out to help *** sick friend after receiving *** note. They, they even ran an ad saying, you know, $5000 reward for anyone who knew anything about the note, but no one ever saw the the note. When police and the local doctor arrived, Lizzie told them she had heard her stepmother come in *** little while earlier. They went upstairs to find Abby as dead and as bloody as Andrew. Fall River was in shock. Over the next week as police searched for leads, the entire country was captivated by headlines. *** venerable citizen and his aged wife hacked to pieces at their home, read the Fall River Herald. Lizzie was *** suspect from the beginning, but not the only one. Emma was in Fairhaven. Emma would have needed *** Lamborghini and *** helicopter to get over and do that and then get back, uh. That couldn't have happened. John Mors, of course, the, the uncle who was, who was there, he had become, uh, uh, *** suspect, although he had ***, *** really *** sort of airside alibi. He, he even was able to tell the net, the, the number of the conductor's hat on, on the, the, uh, trolley where he went, the mayor didn't have any motivation though, no, she'd lose her job. And somebody said, well, Mrs. Borden made her wash the windows on the outside, 190 something in the shade. She said, I'd feel like killing her if they'd asked she asked me to do it. *** week later, Lizzie was charged with murder. If found guilty, she would be hanged. The evidence against her, can you summarize it? Well, it's very circumstantial and it consists chiefly in that arguably she had *** motive, the the money, uh, arguably she had the opportunity, she was in the house. She says for *** time she was out in the barn gathering uh lead to use as weights for fishing lines, but nobody saw her there and she can't prove she was there. Uh, arguably there was *** hatchet in the house. There was *** hatchet, *** handleless hatchet found in the house. I never proved to have been the murder weapon. Now Lizzy bought and burned *** dress, you know, with blood on it. Well, she said it had paint on it. Now, in that family, would you have burned *** dress? No, you would use the squares for *** quilter, you'd torn it up and use it for rags, not in that family where he was so fit. After *** two week trial, Lizzie was found not guilty by *** jury of 12 men, but most in Fall River still felt she was guilty. The jury didn't want to convict her because they knew she would have to hang, and they were reluctant to hang *** woman. For the last 100 years, experts have studied this case, each developing his or her own theory. What could have made Lizzie Borden do it? One theory was premenstrual syndrome. I think if that was typical PMS, that we'd be all dead now, I think, uh, I mean, that's taking it *** bit far. There's also been *** theory, of course, that She was caught in some rather less than delegate. Circumstance with the maid. Now Victoria Lincoln thinks she had spells, certain kind of epilepsy that affects the frontal lobe. Epileptics have fits, fall on the ground, sometimes swallow their tongues, uh, smash their cars up, but they don't commit *** killings. The mystery of who killed the Bordens still fascinates many. Forensics expert now wants to exhume the skulls of Abby and Andrew Borden to see if the hatchet found in the basement matches the wounds in the skulls. After Lizzie Borden's trial, she bought *** big house in an exclusive neighborhood where she lived until her death in 1927. But here in Fall River, she and the legend will live on forever.