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| “ | How could this happen to my boy? HOW?! Who will feel my pain with me?! You? You?! YOU?! YOU?! | „ |
| ~ Borden after the police refuse her case |
Jacqueline Borden is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Smile". Borden is a psychotic murderer of a local dentist she blames for the deaths of her children.
She was portrayed by Catrina Ganey.
Biography[]
Borden was known to the people in her neighborhood as having paranoid delusions. She was the primary caregiver of her children Toby and Lissa. Toby and his friends were given mouthwash by local dentist Dr. Norm Goldman to get drunk on, but it was tainted with ethylene glycol. It poisoned all the boys in what the neighborhood thought was a flu epidemic, but Borden knew something was wrong. As she was too unstable to tell, she believed Goldman drugged and sexually abused Toby, but the police wouldn't take her case, and the doctors were baffled as to why he was getting sicker.
When Toby died, Borden killed Goldman to get revenge. When police came to question her, she was holding a butcher knife on Lissa. Having a full breakdown, she confessed to everything, but Detective Robert Goren got her to release Lissa from appealing to her, as his mother Frances recently died from cancer. Borden surrendered to arrest, and she was most likely institutionalized. After Lissa also died from the tainted mouthwash, along with Toby's friends, an FDA bribery scandal run by Leslie Le Zard would be uncovered.
Trivia[]
- Borden was inspired by the late Ellie Nesler, the killer of child molester Daniel Driver, who sexually abused her son, and who also struggled with her own drug use. She was also inspired by the late Eleanor Bumpers, a Black woman who was shot dead by police in New York City when she refused to be evicted and wielded a butcher knife to make her point.
- The murder of Dr. Norm Goldman was inspired by the murder of Dr. Sebastian Russo.
- Borden's name is a play on real-life acquitted murderer Lizzie Borden.
External links[]
- Jacqueline Borden on the Law & Order Wiki
