Lizzie Borden: Headbanger?
Founded in L.A. in 1983, theatrical glam-metal band Lizzy (with a Y) Borden put out its first EP the next year, the pointedly-named Give ‘Em the Axe.” They have several albums to the Borden name, most recently 2018 s My Midnight Things. They seem to have been lumped in with ‘80s hair-metal, but Lizzy Borden is more of a shock-rock band that revels in horror tropes, with songs like “Love You to Pieces,” “Bloody Tears,” “Catch Your Death” and “Lovin’ You is Murder.” Lizzy Borden is still touring today.
‘Miss Lizzie B was a problem kinda kid’
They’re not the only ones to pay tribute to Lizzie in song. In 1961, folk group the Chad Mitchell Trio released the novelty song “Lizzie Borden” as a single and on the album “Mighty Day on Campus,” telling their version of the story with wicked wordplay and black humor. “You can’t chop your papa up in Massachusetts,” they sing, “you know how nei
Margaret Elizabeth Behrens
Margaret Elizabeth Behrens, born Dec. 16, 1923, in Arlington, N.J., passed away on May 18, 2021, at the age of 97.
She was always a “Brooklyn Girl” who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., when there were still farm fields in Flatbush and was heartbroken when the Dodgers left Ebbets Field in 1957.
She married her high school sweetheart, Richard Behrens, immediately after his discharge from the Army in 1945. She worked for the defense contractor Sperry during World War II as a mail room supervisor and later, while raising two children, Stephen and William, worked around their school schedule at the book publisher Doubleday in customer relations for their book club.
Lizzie Bordenâs Notoriety Is This Homeâs Selling Point
The house where her father and stepmother were brutally killed with a hatchet draws thousands of visitors a year. Now itâs for sale.
Lizzie Borden was tried in 1893 for the hacking deaths of her father and stepmother. The house in Fall River, Mass., where the couple were killed is listed for $2 million.Credit.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2021
The morning after Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were hacked to death in their home on Second Street in Fall River, Mass., in August 1892, 1,500 people gathered in front of the house, drawn by news of a grisly crime in their quiet town.