Lizzie Borden

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

Despite being proven innocent, many believed she committed the murders and has become the subject of folklore. 

References

Other websites
 The Lizzie Andrew Borden Virtual Museum & Library
 Tattered Fabric: Fall River's Lizzie Borden
 The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders  (1893), full text detailing crimes
 Lizzie Borden Moot Court, with tribunal made up of U.S. Supreme Court justices and Stanford University Law School professors. September 16, 1997

Category:1860 births
Category:1927 deaths
Category:People from Massachusetts