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没有比直接睡在案发卧室的犯罪现场更贴近一桩谋杀案的方式了。2019年夏天，《48小时》栏目就这么做了。
我和《48小时》节目组的一组勇敢成员决定前往马萨诸塞州福尔里弗，在这栋房子里过夜。1892年8月4日，70岁的安德鲁·博登和他64岁的妻子艾比·博登被人发现死于这栋房子里，身中多斧惨死。
这起谋杀案的主要嫌疑人：安德鲁32岁的女儿莉齐·博登。
不难理解莉齐为何会成为头号嫌疑人。案发时间是正午，而她当时就在家中。莉齐和父亲的第二任妻子、她的继母艾比关系紧张。
两起命案手段极其残忍，调查人员认为凶手是认识且憎恨这对夫妇的人。此外，凶器被认为是在地下室找到的一把小短柄斧。然而，尽管有压倒性证据指向莉齐是凶手，一年后，经过一场备受瞩目的两周庭审，由全男性组成的陪审团仅商议了一个多小时，便裁定她无罪。
我们重返案发现场，试图还原当时究竟发生了什么。
犯罪现场调查员艾琳·鲁巴斯和《48小时》记者艾琳·莫里亚蒂在博登家。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
我们绝非首批试图破解这桩至今仍引人入胜的悬案的人。莉齐·博登的故事启发了无数书籍、电影，甚至还有一首 nursery rhyme：“莉齐·博登拿起斧，给了继母四十斧。当她看到自己做了什么，又给了父亲四十一斧。”本周，瑞恩·墨菲和伊恩·布伦南执导的真实犯罪系列剧集《怪物：莉齐·博登的故事》将在网飞上线首播。
我们现在得知，凶器并非斧头，艾比实际被刺的次数不到12次，但这丝毫没有削弱这两起谋杀案的残暴程度——一个多世纪后，它们依然引发热议。
这栋位于第二街的绿色框架房屋已有180多年历史，现已修复并更名为莉齐·博登之家博物馆。它作为民宿运营，面向特定客群开放，屋内陈列着许多令人毛骨悚然的黑白照片，其中就包括艾比·博登尸体躺在楼上卧室地板上的真实犯罪现场照片。
莉齐·博登案：历史上最臭名昭著的犯罪现场之一 16张照片
我决定就在那间卧室过夜。毕竟，如果这栋房子真如现任房主所说闹鬼，或许艾比会现身，给我一场“来世”的专访。
为何要在近135年后重访案发现场？在阅读了莉齐对调查人员的供述后，我心中有一个疑问：莉齐称自己当时在一楼，那为何她没有听到继母艾比在楼上遭到袭击的动静？如今走过这栋房子，愈发觉得她的说法站不住脚。房屋的墙壁和地板都很薄，而莉齐声称自己当时所在的餐厅，恰好就在艾比卧室的正下方。很难想象艾比在遭到袭击时没有呼救。
而当你看到这栋房子实际有多小时，不禁会疑惑：凶手如何杀害安德鲁和艾比，却不留下血迹或血溅痕迹？如果莉齐用短柄斧杀害了父母，她如何做到衣裙上没有沾上一滴血？庭审证词显示她可能销毁了一件衣服，但谋杀案很快就被报案，她怎么来得及换衣服并清理干净？
正当我纠结于这些问题时，到了睡觉时间。同事们都住进了房子里的其他房间，我则住进了二楼前侧的卧室，也就是艾比的房间。床的旁边就是发现她带血尸体的区域。我穿着运动服上床，万一想快速逃离，但很遗憾，我一整夜都睡得很安稳。
当年的法医科学极为简陋。如今，调查人员会立即封锁现场，即便莉齐·博登的衣物上只有极其微量的血迹，也能被检测出来。而且如今的陪审团很可能会以截然不同的眼光看待这起案件和被告。1893年，12名男性陪审员难以相信一位富有、受过教育的单身女性会犯下如此令人发指的罪行。他们让她无罪释放了。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-july-2021/
I slept in the room where Lizzie Borden’s stepmother was murdered. Here’s what I discovered.
2026-09-17T07:01:03-0400 / CBS News
You can’t get much closer to a murder case than actually sleeping at the crime scene in the very bedroom where the crime occurred. That’s exactly what “48 Hours” did in the summer of 2019.
A brave team of “48 Hours” producers and I decided to take a trip to Fall River, Massachusetts, to spend the night in the house where, on August 4, 1892, 70-year-old Andrew Borden and his wife, 64-year-old Abby Borden, were found hacked to death.
The prime suspect in the murders: Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden.
It’s easy to understand why Lizzie became the main suspect. She was at home at the time of the murders, which took place in the middle of the day. Lizzie also had a strained relationship with Abby, her dad’s second wife and her stepmother.
The deaths were so violent that investigators believed the killer was someone who knew and hated the couple. What’s more, the murder weapon was believed to be a small hatchet found in the basement. And yet, despite overwhelming evidence that pointed to Lizzie as the killer, a year later, following a high-profile two-week trial, an all-male jury, deliberating for a little more than an hour, decided to acquit her.
We went back to the scene to try to determine what happened.
Crime scene investigator Erin Rubas and “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty inside the Borden house. CBS News
We certainly aren’t the first people to try to solve the case that remains such a tantalizing mystery to this day. Lizzie Borden has inspired countless books, films and even a nursery rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” This week, “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” a part of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series, premieres on Netflix.
We now know that the murder weapon wasn’t an ax and Abby was actually stabbed fewer than a dozen times, but that doesn’t diminish the brutality of these murders that still resonate more than a century later.
The green-frame house on Second Street, more than 180 years old, has been restored and is now known as the Lizzie Borden House and Museum. It operates as a Bed and Breakfast and is advertised to a very select clientele since the house is filled with macabre black and white photos, including actual crime scene photos of Abby’s Borden’s body on the floor of an upstairs bedroom.
Lizzie Borden case: Images from one of the most notorious crime scenes in history 16 photos
It’s in that bedroom where I decided to spend the night. After all, if the house is haunted as its current owners suggest, maybe Abby would appear and give me the interview of an “after-lifetime.”
Why revisit a crime scene nearly 135 years later? One question I had, after reading what Lizzie told investigators, was why Lizzie, who said she had been on the first floor, didn’t hear anything when her stepmother Abby was attacked upstairs. And walking through the house today made that statement seem even less likely. The walls and floors of the house are thin and the dining room, where Lizzie says she was, is located directly below Abby’s bedroom. It seems difficult to believe that Abby didn’t cry out when she was attacked.
And when you see how small the house actually is, you wonder how anyone could have killed Andrew and Abby without leaving a blood trail or blood spatter. If Lizzie used a hatchet to kill her parents, how did she manage to do it without a drip of blood left on her dress? There was testimony that she may have destroyed a dress, but the murders were reported quickly. How could she have changed clothes and cleaned up?
I was wrestling with those questions when it was time to go to bed. After my colleagues had gone to sleep in various rooms in the house, I settled into the second floor front bedroom, Abby’s room. Right beside the bed was the area where her bloodied body had been found. I went to bed in running gear, in the event I wanted to make a quick exit, but I am sorry to report that I slept undisturbed the entire night.
Forensic science was very rudimentary back then. Today, investigators would have sealed the scene immediately and would have been able to recover even the tiniest traces of blood, if any existed, on Lizzie Borden’s clothing. And it’s likely that today, modern jurors would have looked at the case and the defendant very differently. In 1893, 12 men found it difficult to believe an affluent, educated single woman was capable of such heinous acts. They let her walk free.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-july-2021/
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