Lizzie Borden Evidence In Attic

In the 1960s, a woman poking around her family home's attic opened an old iron tub and found the head of an axe, a gashed human skull, and macabre sketches of murder victims. Startled, she learned that these grim objects were not props but original evidence from the Lizzie Borden murder trial, saved decades earlier.

Her father had served as Lizzie Borden's lawyer after the 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, and Lizzie had given him the trial exhibits following her 1893 acquittal. The evidence then sat forgotten in the attic for years, until her discovery unexpectedly revived a tangible link to one of America's most notorious murder cases.

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