More than 130 years after the brutal murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns takes a forensic look at one of America’s most infamous cold cases.

Using the original autopsy reports, crime scene photographs and images of the victims’ skulls from the trial, Dr. Crowns reconstructs the injuries and examines what they reveal about the weapon, the attacks and potentially even the order of the blows.

Were the wounds really “incised wounds,” as originally documented? Could the suspected shingle hatchet have produced the distinctive injuries found on both victims? And what can modern forensic pathology tell us that investigators in 1892 may have missed?

Then, Dr. Crowns puts the theory to the test. In Part 2, he’ll take a hatchet to a ballistic gel head to see how the injuries compare to the original Borden autopsy findings.

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