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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 play is based on the case of Lizzie Borden. On August 4, 1892, Borden's father's body was "discovered" by Lizzie in a downstairs room of the family home. [2] Soon, the Bordens' maid, Sullivan, discovered the body of Borden's stepmother. The subsequent investigation and trial of Lizzie set a precedent for media coverage. [3] [4]
Police arrive to examine Andrew’s body, and upon searching the house, Mrs. Churchill and Bridget find the body of Abby Borden, Lizzie’s stepmother, hacked to death in the guest room. Neighbors flock to surround the house. Emma Borden, 9 years older than 31-year-old Lizzie, returns from Fairhaven, where she was away staying with friends.
I’m talking about the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Mass. You know, the one from the really creepy nursery rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. ... Abby's body ...
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.
Still reeling from Lizzie Borden, another axe murder rocks Fall River. The Borden case will forever be a mystery, but we know exactly who held the axe and killed Bertha Manchester: Jose Correa de ...
The Borden house at 92 Second Street in the late 1800s. From 1872 to 1892, the house was the property of Andrew Borden, Lizzie's father, who was a bank president [3] and a member of Fall River high society. [4] After buying the house, Andrew Borden altered it so that instead of it being two apartments it would become one home for him and his ...
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.