About
Rich murder suspect who allegedly gave her stepmother 40 whacks.
Before Fame
She taught Sunday school to young children and was very involved in the Central Congregational Church.
Trivia
The deaths of both her parents by hatchet left her in some trouble. She was eventually acquitted, and no one else was arrested or tried. A poem was eventually written about her alleged crime that goes, "Lizzie Borden took a axe gave her mother 40 whacks, and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41."
Family Life
Her father Andrew Jackson Borden married Abby Durfee Gray after his wife Sarah died.
Associated With
Her trial has been compared to O.J. Simpson in terms of the amount of attention it received at the time.
