My favorite theory is that Lizzie was having an affair with the maid and when caught in the clutches, chased her step mother to the bedroom and chopped her up. She then waited for her father to come home and chopped him up. The ax handle and the clothes she was wearing were burned in the kitchen stove and the ax was dropped into the privy in the basement. She knew that the step mother was going to tell her father and that she, Lizzie, would have been kicked out of the home and disinherited.
Yeah...
I’ve heard or read something similar.
This thread just earned a “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” topic.
There was a novel in which this was the plot some years back.
Good theory, as Lizzie carried on a Lesbian affair with an actress named Nance O’Neill.