Good-bye, Miss Lizzie Borden

Originally Aired: October 4, 1955 Suspense #618, "Good-bye, Miss Lizzie Borden," imagines what life might be like one year after the infamous Lizzie Borden trial. Emma Borden, Lizzie's sister, prepares to flee to Fairhaven for a desperately needed escape from the oppressive atmosphere of the Second Street house. As the maid Maggie also departs—unable to endure Lizzie's constant spying and eerie silences any longer—Emma finds herself cornered by Nelly Cutts, a brash female reporter from Colorado's Cripple Creek Record. Nelly has come seeking an anniversary interview about the brutal axe murders that shocked Fall River. What begins as an unwanted intrusion becomes a tense interrogation as Nelly presses Emma about the details of that terrible August morning when her father and stepmother were bludgeoned to death. Emma reveals the unbearable strain of living with Lizzie, who watches her every move from the shadows. As Nelly methodically dissects the evidence—the missing axe, the absence of blood, the triple-locked doors—the two women reconstruct the crime while Lizzie lurks upstairs, listening to every word.