The First Borden Murders

The First Borden Murders

By Jennifer Uhlarik If you’ve heard of Lizzie Borden—raise your hand!Most of us probably have—at least by the oft-quoted schoolyard rhyme about the woman who delivered forty whacks of an ax to her mother, then another forty-one to her father. However, Lizzie was not the first Borden whose name was associated with murder. Four and a half decades before the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden (father and step-mother of Lizzie), the first Borden murd…