This murder at that time was definatly a new murder in its class. Although you read the evidence and think she for sure killed her parents, but at that same point another question comes to mind; did she really? There was no doubt, motive to kill her stepmother, the woman she hated ever since her father had remarried. Then you begin to wonder why did she continue this gruesome act and kill her father? After all, many people, including Lizzie herself, loved him. Could it have been that her hate towards her stepmother had become so great that she now hated the man who had cared for her all these years? Is it possible that her hate became so great that she began to hate her father for ever marrying Abby? The case suggests that an ax was used in the murders with a combined 29 whacks or blows the head. They say that when the father was found his head was almost in complete pulp which would suggest a lot of anger and hate from whoever killed him. Just one blow would have done it. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?