Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.

Lizzie Borden

American murder suspect, acquitted (1860–1927)

Lizzie Andrew Borden 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, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of…