LIZZIE BORDEN PART 1
For our 48 Hours listeners, we give you the first episode of our new podcast, “My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty.” Erin Moriarty takes you behind the scenes and reveals the story behind the story in some of the most suspenseful and heart-breaking cases she’s covered over her career as a crime journalist. Subscribe to this new podcast today! Erin Moriarty takes us to Fall River, Massachusetts, where one of the most sensational crimes of the 19th century took place. The crime inspired the dark nursery rhyme “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” Despite what everyone thinks they know, there is a stunning verdict in the case. In part 1 of this unusual road trip, Erin takes us to the scene of the crime - the house where the murders took place is now The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum. We learn about the Borden family and what happened on that fateful day in August of 1892. It was a brutal crime scene and there are actual death photos hanging in the house. Erin will spend the night here. She is looking for a motive, evidence and maybe a ghost or two.
- Duration
- 18m
- Broadcast on
- 15 Sep 2019
- Audio Format
- other
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(somber piano music) - Lizzie Borden took and asked and gave her mother 40 what? When she seen when she gave her father 41. (somber piano music) - This is Abby's autopsy photo. - I mean, we're talking about that's inside her skull. - She was struck in the back of the head 17 times and it was struck 11 times to the face. (somber piano music) - I'm Erin Moriarty, 48 hours and this (somber piano music) is my life of crime. (dramatic piano music) (somber piano music) (somber piano music) - So I'm on a train on the way to Fall River, Massachusetts. Now if that name sounds familiar, it's because Fall River is where one of the most sensational crimes of the 19th century took place. Or in the vernacular of the day, one of the most dastardly and diabolical crimes of the 19th century. - Lizzie Borden took an ass and gave her mother 41. - If all you know is what is the Lizzie Borden nursery rhyme, - When she seen when she gave her father 41. - Then you don't know anything. That's what we've been learning as we decided we were going to reinvestigate the Lizzie Borden case. Did she do it? Did she not? And I thought I knew everything about the Lizzie Borden case from that nursery rhyme. It turns out it was completely wrong. (somber piano music) - Charles Osgood, you may remember him from CBS Radio, can help set the stage for us as he did for a Sunday morning piece back in 2002. (somber piano music) - Andrew Borden, a leading businessman, was found murdered on his downstairs sofa. The victim of multiple blows to the head. His second wife, Abby, was found murdered in similar fashion upstairs. On the basis of largely circumstantial evidence, 32-year-old Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with her father and stepmother to death. - The murders actually occurred in August of 1892. Think about that. And yet what's odd is who hasn't heard the name Lizzie Borden? - 127 years later, 127 years.
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For our 48 Hours listeners, we give you the first episode of our new podcast, “My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty.” Erin Moriarty takes you behind the scenes and reveals the story behind the story in some of the most suspenseful and heart-breaking cases she’s covered over her career as a crime journalist. Subscribe to this new podcast today! Erin Moriarty takes us to Fall River, Massachusetts, where one of the most sensational crimes of the 19th century took place. The crime inspired the dark nursery rhyme “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” Despite what everyone thinks they know, there is a stunning verdict in the case. In part 1 of this unusual road trip, Erin takes us to the scene of the crime - the house where the murders took place is now The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum. We learn about the Borden family and what happened on that fateful day in August of 1892. It was a brutal crime scene and there are actual death photos hanging in the house. Erin will spend the night here. She is looking for a motive, evidence and maybe a ghost or two.