D.A. Knowlton interrogates Lizzie Borden during her inquest until she admits she was the only one in the house with the stepmother whom she and her sister Emma hated and last sees her in the guestroom where the body of Abby Borden was found.
Each episode begins by playing back the last minute of the previous episode to orient the listener. At this point, the gloves are off and Knowlton is catching Lizzie in one lie after another as she seems to have an excuse for everything that puts her in the fortunate position of not knowing anything.
Soon after that, her father and then later, her stepmother are found dead and she declares she was out of hearing range and saw nothing while she was in the kitchen reading a magazine, and eating pears until her father came home and she departed for the loft of the hottest part of the barn "looking for sinkers."
All though she was up and down the stairs and the cellar getting clean clothes, putting them upstairs, and sewing a little piece of tape onto a sleeve next door to the dead body of Mrs. Borden, she says she saw or heard nothing and just happened to be outside in the hot loft of the barn looking for sinkers during the murder of her father.
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It is the actions of Lizzie's lawyers to prevent the jury and the public from knowing the truth about what really happened that day that has caused so much misdirection and speculation. Her defense prevented any of the pharmacists at the courthouse from testifying. Her lawyers also prevented the jury from hearing Lizzie's inquest and had it ruled inadmissible, so it is with great pleasure that you are able to hear this fabulous ensemble of acting talent despite my shortcomings as a new producer thanks to the technology of the digital era.
Lizzie Borden expert and author Rebecca F. Pittman opines in her must-have book "The History and Haunting of Lizzie Borden" that Lizzie successfully obtained arsenic and used it to poison the fresh milk waiting for the arrival of the elder Bordens to their summer retreat at the Swansea farm during the first week of August 1892.
When they failed to arrive due to their unfortunate circumstances, the elder farmhands drank the milk and were taken to their beds which consequently happened soon after the murders. We know this because they were too ill to be interrogated by the Fall River Police Department and it was in the written record. Good sleuthing on Rebecca's part putting the clues together.
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We must ask ourselves why would a Christian spinster of good character from a rich family need three of the best lawyers from the state of Massachusetts, if not the country if she were innocent to defend her. Because there was a tremendous amount of circumstantial evidence and she was not well liked except by a few prominent people that see the good in everyone.
The jury could not grasp these simple principles as I presented them to you. They had to listen to the trial in bits and pieces with the defense objecting to any mention of a "boy with a note had come for Mrs. Borden" because there was no boy with a note. Lizzie confabulated the story as an alibi to raise the probable cause of a stranger during the era of Jack the Ripper.
Lizzie's lawyers also objected to any mention of prussic acid testimony and her attempts to obtain it as though all three employees of Smith's Apothecary had a group hallucination.
Thirteen minutes into this episode Knowlton is quite clever in how he is able to get Lizzie to admit she was the last person to see Abby Borden alive at 9am moments before her death in the guestroom. If you are a law student I highly recommend that you listen to these 3 minutes.
Narrator: Martin Dodge
Announcer: Dennis Alexander
Lizzie Borden: Tanya Montoya
D.A. Hosea Knowlton: Tim Dennis
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Produced by Kate Lavender
Read my hypothesis on how Lizzie was able to appear to her neighbors and the police w/o blood on her hair or clothes by using a waterproof capelike gossamer hiding in plain sight.
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Transcriptions of Lizzie's inquest testimony provided with permission by Stefani Koorey and LizzieAndrewBorden.com
Copyright permission read by Dennis Alexander
The latest book by the Fall River Historical Society "The Jennings Journals 1892"
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