Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) is an American woman who is the main suspect in the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Borden is tried and acquitted of the murders.

The case is a cause célèbre and receives widespread newspaper coverage throughout the United States.

Following her release from jail, where she is held during the trial, Borden chooses to remain a resident of Fall River despite facing ostracism from the other residents

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts elects not to charge anyone else with the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden.

She spends the remainder of her life in Fall River before dying of pneumonia, aged sixty-six, just days before the death of her sister, Emma.

Borden and her association with the murders will remain a topic in American popular culture mythology into the twenty-first century, and she will be been depicted in various films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes.

Speculation about the crimes will continue.

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