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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.
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]
Andrew Jackson Borden and Abby Durfee Borden, father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden, both killed in their family house in Fall River, Massachusetts on the morning of 4 August 1892, by blows from a hatchet. In the case of Andrew Borden, the hatchet blows not only crushed his skull, but cleanly split his left eyeball.
The case of Lizzie Borden is known the world over. But the SouthCoast is home to many more shocking true-crime stories, some unsolved. Here are three.
Making the list was Fall River’s own Lizzie Borden House at 230 Second St., scene of the still-unsolved August 1892 hatchet murders of Andrew and Abby Borden — and home to what some claim are ...
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.
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.
The Lizzie Borden House, Fall River Historical Society and Fall River and Somerset public libraries have Lizzie Borden events planned Aug. 4