Was Lizzie Borden cruel to animals?

If you want to start an argument here, just ask whether Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks and whether, when she saw what she had done ... read more

But, Lizzie, or Lizbeth, as she called herself in later life, actually had another legacy, too: she helped save stray animals by taking a large role in founding the Animal Rescue League of Fall River, Massachusetts, which benefits from her first—and final—bequest to this day. read more

Lizzie was rumored to be cruel to animals and was widely believed to have beheaded her stepmother's cat, and witnesses said she tried to buy poison not long before the murder. There was surprisingly little blood in the area of the murders, and none on Lizzie's clothes. read more