LIZZIE BORDEN’S SECRET screamed a front-page headline in the Boston Daily Globe’s morning edition for Monday, October 10, 1892. The fourteen-column article that followed rolled out shocking new evidence about the axe murders of Borden’s parents in Fall River, Massachusetts, a crime that transfixed America that year. The secret? Borden, who was awaiting trial for the … Continue reading The Bizarre Newspaper Hoax That Nearly Ruined Lizzie Borden