July 19, 1860 - Lizzie Borden

Few American criminal cases of the nineteenth century have proven as durably unresolved as the Fall River axe murders of 1892, and Borden's name has remained inseparable from them despite her acquittal. The circumstantial weight of suspicion, combined with the brutal nature of the killings and her proximity to the victims, kept public interest alive long after the verdict. That no one else was ever charged has left the case in a permanent state of legal ambiguity — neither solved nor fully closed.

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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. No one else was charged in the murders, and Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

The Borden murders and trial received widespread publicity in the United States, and have remained a topic in American popular culture depicted in numerous films, theatrical productions, literary works, and folk rhymes around the Fall River area.

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