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You Can Now Own Lizzie Borden’s House
The Famed murder suspect’s former residence is on the market
Lizzie Borden remains the focus of one of the most infamous murders in American history. She was arrested for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in the family house in Fall River, Massachusetts. Although she was acquitted, she remains the most prominent suspect well over a century later. For those who enjoy the macabre, the house she moved into after gaining her freedom, nicknamed Maplecroft, was recently placed on the market and is available to whoever willing to meet the $890,000 asking price.
Andrew and Abby Borden were gruesomely murdered with an axe. It was so appalling and so brutal that it spawned a burst in popular culture, including nursery rhymes:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Conflicting evidence and Victorian ideals that precluded or skirted around more “delicate” information assisted in Borden’s acquittal. She remained in the same town for the remainder of her life, moving to Maplecroft from the family home with her sister Emma, despite the rumors and innuendo, before passing away in 1927 at the age…
