Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show! It's getting close to Halloween and this is the spookiest episode we can think of from our archives.

We're going to talk about Lizzie Borden today. Was she a Miss Criant? Or was she misunderstood?

Hmm, stay tuned. And here's your 30-second summary.

But really, it's more like 5 seconds.

Lizzie Borden and Bonnie and I. Skate from Mother 40 Wax.

When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 40 Warn!

Andrew Jackson Borden and Sarah Morse Borden were married and 6 years later they had a daughter Emma.

A few years after that, another daughter Alice is born, although she does die at age 3.

A few years later, Lizzie is born. At that point, Emma is 9 and Lizzie comes on the scene.

And unfortunately, Lizzie and Emma's mother died when Lizzie was 3 years old.

It's very sad. Now, at the time, Fall River, Massachusetts was a town of about 75,000 people.

And the founding families of this town based their fortune on cotton mills.

Like so many towns in New England, you'll see have these kind of abandoned cotton mills that aren't new anymore.

But that's where the fortune of this town came from.

And the Borden family, in question though, the one that we're talking about today,

we're still thought of as worthy of society, but had fallen into some hard times this branch of the family.

And the father, Andrew, had had to scrabble his way back up to wealth by some shrewd property investments,

and he had become Fall River's undertaker.

So there's no shortage of clients and business like that.

So he was known as a almost completely humorless and penny-pinching man.

Makes sense though, because similar to people that grow up in the depression, you know,

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