And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Lizzie Borden has been a perennial cult figure since her parents were murdered in 1892. The most ...

In the 125 years since Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted of murdering her father, Andrew, and stepmother, Abby, with a hatchet, her story has been retold in countless true-crime books ...

FALL RIVER — Lizzie Borden was 63 years old when a man from New York came looking for her. It was 30 years after the controversial murder trial that made headlines nationwide and turned ...

To all but the most devoted Lizzie Borden aficionados ... more than nine years of research and interviews, is not a book about the Borden slayings. Instead, the timeline weaves broadly through ...

The event drew more than 100 people, all hoping for a glimpse into Lizzie’s world. The book, “Parallel Lives,” examines just that. It pulls the focus from the historic, unsolved Borden case ...

“She used techniques that we often associate with fiction ... "The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings" editors Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr will be at Belmont Books for an event ...

The enigmatic woman at the center of the case was Lizzie Borden, who stood accused of murdering ... It was complete fiction—and its author, fearing legal repercussions, fled to Canada, only ...

The new film Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, examines one of the 19th century’s most notorious murder suspects. But, despite the fame of her case, it remains surrounded by ...

Binette published a book last year ... of what is known about Lizzie Borden is based on legend, innuendo and outright lies," Martins said. "Fact has been suppressed by fiction, and the fiction ...

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks ... or did she? (Spoiler alert: Not quite.) Everyone knows the old rhyme and the horrifying murders that inspired it, but to this day ...

Knowlton-Pearson Correspondence': A new Lizzie Borden book reveals the backstory behind 'the father of true-crime' writing In the 1940s, years after Jennings’ death, his children found the ...