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Lizzie Borden 'Retrial' Ends in Another Not Guilty Verdict

Chris Boardman

Story Created: Nov 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM EDT

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM EDT

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Lizzie Borden has been found innocent of using an ax to hack her father and stepmother to death again.

Borden was acquitted 123-48 by the audience at a mock trial in
Taunton on Thursday night to mark the 150th anniversary of
Massachusetts Superior Court.

Joan Fund and Bristol Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne
served as Borden's defense team, while Francis O'Boy and Thomas Gay were the prosecutors. Actors dressed in period attire played Borden and witnesses from the original 1893 trial.

Fund said in her closing statement that there was "no murder
weapon, no blood, no bloody clothing, no investigation."

O'Boy countered that Borden had motivation and opportunity.

Borden was charged with the August 1892 slayings, but although she was acquitted, many people thought she was guilty.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Friday, Nov 20 at 11:42 AM Julia#5 wrote ...

Read the book "Lizzie" by Arnold Brown. She had a crazy half brother William Borden. He was the illegitimate son of Andrew, her father. No doubt in my mind he was the killer.

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