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Lizzie Borden - Axe Murderer?

Updated Jun 16, 2025
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Lizzie Borden - Axe Murderer?
Lizzie Andrew Borden was tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. (She was 32) No one else was ever tried for the murders. (Other suggested suspects were the maid, an illegitimate son of Andrew Borden, Lizzie's sister Emma, Lizzie's uncle - the brother of her mother, even a traveling handyman.)

After Lizzie was acquitted, she and her sister Emma moved to a new home in another part of town. Lizzie named it "Maplecroft" and Emma lived there until 1905 - when she moved out after an argument, never seeing her sister again.

Lizzie stayed in the "new" house until she died of pneumonia in 1927. She left a sizable estate for the time - most of which she willed to the Fall River Animal Rescue League.
Date & Place: in Massachusetts, USA County
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Lizzie Andrew Borden
Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts United States was born on July 19, 1860 in Fall River to Sarah Anthony (Morse) Borden and Andrew Jackson Borden. She had siblings Alice Esther Borden and Emma Lenora Borden. Lizzie was baptized in 1860 in Fall River. Lizzie Borden died at age 66 years old on June 1, 1927 in Fall River, and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River.
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