*August 3, 1892 -- Lizzie goes to drugstore to purchase deadly poison, but drugstore wouldn't let her.
*August 4, 1892 -- Borden Murders Committed
*August 6, 1892 -- Newspaper printed suggestive murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Borden; Lizzie Borden.
*August 9, 1892 -- District Attorney questions Lizzie Borden.
*August 11, 1892 -- Lizzie Borden arrested.
*August 12, 1892 -- Lizzie pleaded not guilty to the charges.
*August 22, 1892 -- Returned to Fall River for preliminary hearing, at the end of which the judge pronounced her, "probably guilty." And ordered her to face a grand jury, and consequences for the possible charges of the murders of her parents.
*November -- Grand jury meets, Alice Russell, family friend of the Borden's gave testimony that Lizzie had burned a blue dress because, she claimed that "it had old paint on it." When the murders occurred, Bridget Sullivan, the servant in the Borden household, had reported that Lizzie was wearing a blue dress before the murders, and a different dress afterwards. This was very substantial evidence that Lizzie had killed her parents.
*June 5, 1893 -- The trial of Lizzie Borden opened before a panel of three judges, and later, a panel of twelve in a state case.
*1893 -- Lizzie pronounced not guilty of the murder of Mr. Andrew Borden, and Mrs. Abby Gray Borden. Case Closed. Or is it.....?
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I never knew about Lizzie Borden. You guys did a great job explaining about her life. (:
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