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Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
In August 1892, Fall River, Massachusetts Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden comes across the terrible murder scene of her father Andrew, who had been brutally killed with a hatchet. Local law enforcement arrives, also discovering the body of Abby Borden, the stepmother of Lizzie and her older sister Emma.
The Borden house at 230 Second Street in 2009. The Lizzie Borden House is notorious for being the home of Lizzie Borden and her family, and it is the location of the 1892 unsolved double murder of Lizzie's father and stepmother Andrew and Abby Borden. [1] It is located on 230 Second Street in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts. [2]
People's Julie Jordan along with Liz Beedle and Emily Penke, aka the Ghost Moms, checked out the infamous Fall River, Mass. house that is now a museum and B&B
Despite being acquitted of double murder, time and popular culture have forever cast Lizzie Borden as one of America's most notorious killers. Did she do it or not? "48 Hours" re-examines the case.
The Borden family owned the house in the late 19th century — the well-to-do businessman Andrew Borden, his second wife, Abby, Andrew’s daughters Emma and Lizzie, and live-in maid Bridget Sullivan.
The Fall River axe murders, Lizzie Borden was charged and tried for the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in 1892. The court and jury found her not guilty, and the murder remains unsolved to this day.
William D. Spencer is the author of two books on the Lizzie Borden case and now "The Other Fall River Tragedy: The Murder of Bertha Manchester," a little-remembered true crime slaying from 1893.