Interesting Material in the Lizzie Borden Case Has Come to Light

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I watched a podcast of an interview with Rich Little. He is the author of a 2014 book entitled "Cold Case to Case Closed". He has some very interesting ideas about the murder of Lizzie Borden's father, Andrew, and mother-in-law, Abby, that took place on August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. If you are familiar with the famous case, you know that Abby was killed first on the second floor of their home, and then Andrew on the first floor. A hatchet was the implement used in both, and it was never found. They had had a guest the night before. Lizzie's uncle, her biological mother's brother, Robert Morse, had stayed over. He had come to town to do some business, and after getting up the next morning, left the house to visit a sick relative. He had taken a trolley to the home of the sick relative, but left there just before Lizzie's father returned home for lunch. He would have had time to reach the Borden home before Andrew made it home. It is thought by Little that Robert was the murderer as he and Andrew had argued over business, and he was a butcher, so it would be normal for him to have a hatchet or axe in his possession. Andrew was worth between $13 and $15 million in today's money. He owned rental property and several businesses. He was also on the board of directors of several banks in the area. We will never see a conviction in this case. Lizzie Borden was found innocent, and the authorities had no other suspects in the case. This is an interesting hypothesis to take into consideration in the case however. What do you think? I have seen two movies about the story. Each one done in such a way as to leave you feeling that Lizzie was a weird murderer of her parents. But, I wonder if all of that is wrong, and she didn't get away with murder after all. And, after all is said and done it was her uncle who killed them with the hatchet he used to butcher animals. That would account for the hatchet never being found.