Lizzie borden stepmother

Emma Borden may not be as well-known as her infamous younger sister, Lizzie Borden, she is nonetheless part of the lore that has found a permanent place in American popular culture mythology.

In , following the brutal axe murders of their father and stepmother, Lizzie was arrested as the primary suspect. It immediately drew the attention of both the press and the public, likely due to the undeniably violent nature of the crime combined with the sex, background, and age of the defendant.

Her eventual acquittal garnered even more morbid fascination. Emma supported her sister through the trial. Neither sister ever married and lived together in a house in Fall River until , whe