“I was so christened,” she replied. Lizzie’s mother died in 1862. Left with two daughters to raise, her father, Andrew Borden, soon married a chubby spinster of 38 named Abby Durfee Gra ...

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New ...

FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she ...

Lizzie Borden. She was tried in 1893 — and acquitted — for the gruesome murder of her father and step-mother. Today, the site of that crime is a bed-and-breakfast and museum and one of the ...