A Trial of the CenturyWas Lizzie Guilty of Murder?In the Lizzie Borden, accused of murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet. In 1893, Lizzie Borden stood trial for the brutal murders of her father, Andrew, and stepmother, Abby, in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. There were no eyewitnesses, no confession and no murder weapon that could conclusively be tied to the crime. Instead, the prosecution built its case from a disturbing collection of Lizzie's conflicting accounts of her movements, an alleged attempt to buy poison shortly before the killings, and a dress she burned in the kitchen stove three days afterwards. What followed became one of the most notorious murder trials in American a case of family tensions, missing evidence and reasonable doubt, played out before a public struggling to imagine that a respectable Victorian woman could have committed such a savage crime. This script edition accompanies the full-cast courtroom drama audiobook released Autumn 2026. classic-crime.com.Drawn from the original trial transcripts and contemporary reporting, this edition recreates the key exchanges between prosecution and the discovery of the bodies inside the Borden home, the search for a weapon, Lizzie's behaviour before and after the murders, and the circumstantial evidence on which the prosecution attempted to build its case. The proceedings reveal not only the mystery at the heart of the Borden murders but the assumptions of Gilded Age America about class, respectability and what a woman was capable of doing. The Trial of Lizzie Borden is the fourth title in the Trials of the Century series, following The Trial of Patty Hearst.