Little Lizzie Borden

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On June 20, 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted on the murder of her father and stepmother. She moved out their house with her sister and thereafter resided in a stylish house, "Maplecroft" across town . She never married. When she died in 1927, she left $30,000 to the local animal rescue league and $500 for the perpetual care of her father's grave.