Lizzie Borden

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Background

• Youngest of 2 daughters
• Biological mother passes away when Lizzie is 3 years old
• Father remarries, Lizzie highly dislikes stepmother
• Lizzie, as well as her sister, are both spinsters and live at home
• Mentally unstable

background (cont.)

• Her father was one of the wealthiest men in town
• Days before murder, Lizzie was not appointed direct heir of her father's wealth
• She felt distant from her immediate family

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crime/motive