On June 20, 1893, Lizzie was acquitted of the charge of murder. She had been accused of killing her father and stepmother. In August of 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were brutally murdered by multiple blows from an axe. The only other people home at the time of the slayings were Lizzie and a maid. Testimony from an uncle indicated that there had been strife in the family over money and that Lizzie and her older sister Emma did not get along with their stepmother. Abby was killed in the guest bedroom two hours before her husband. He had been murdered on the sofa in the sitting room and both victims had been repeatedly struck. The trial began on June 5^th and Lizzie, who remained calm throughout the trial, did not testify. No one else was ever charged in the slayings and the mystery remains of who was the killer. The case continues to draw speculation of the true identity of the murderer and books have continued to be written on this perplexing case.