{"id":29502,"date":"2026-08-06T06:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29502"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:31:24","slug":"the-truth-about-the-murder-of-lizzie-bordens-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=29502","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Murder of Lizzie Borden&#8217;s Parents\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<h2>What happened to Lizzie Borden&#8217;s parents, Andrew and Abby Borden?<\/h2>\n<p>At around 11 a.m. on Aug. 4, 1892, Andrew, a bank president, was found dead on the sofa in the sitting room of the Borden family home.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <strong>Seabury Bowen <\/strong>recalled noticing &#8220;like a flash,&#8221; per Miller&#8217;s book, that nothing else in the room looked out of place. County Medical Examiner Dr. <strong>William Dolan <\/strong>counted 10 disfiguring cuts on Andrew&#8217;s face and head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abby&#8217;s body was found in an upstairs guest bedroom, having taken, as Dolan determined, 18 blows to the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p>Going through Andrew&#8217;s tools in the cellar, police found a claw hatchet with a smudge of red on the handle, but they removed multiple hatchets and axes from the house.<\/p>\n<p>Emma was away visiting friends. According to <em>The Borden Murders<\/em>, Bowen told Lizzie&#8217;s friend <strong>Alice Russell<\/strong>, one of a number of people by then swarming the house that the increasingly distraught younger sister &#8220;had better go up to her room and stay there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened to Lizzie Borden&#8217;s parents, Andrew and Abby Borden? At around 11 a.m. on Aug. 4, 1892, Andrew, a bank president, was found dead on the sofa in the sitting room of the Borden family home. Dr. Seabury Bowen recalled noticing &#8220;like a flash,&#8221; per Miller&#8217;s book, that nothing else in the room looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260805\/17c3ac35-8e98-4b8f-80a4-e5cec0429188_1785969998.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}