Facts:   - death place: fall river , massachusetts , u.s.    - signature: lizzie borden signature.svg    - known for: being father and step-mother . tried and acquitted for the murders of her    - resting place: oak grove cemetery    - caption: 1889    - birth name: lizzie andrew borden    - death cause: pneumonia    - death date: 1 june 1927      - birth date: 19 july 1860    - name: lizzie borden    - image: lizzie borden.jpg    - birth place: fall river , massachusetts , u.s.   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lizzie borden .
lizzie andrew borden -lrb- july 19 , 1860 -- june 1 , 1927 -rrb- was an american woman who was tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and her stepmother in fall river , massachusetts .the case was a `` cause célèbre '' throughout the united states .following her release from the prison in which she had been held during the trial , borden chose to remain a resident of fall river , massachusetts , for the rest of her life , despite facing significant ostracism .the commonwealth of massachusetts elected to charge no one else with the murder of andrew and abby borden ; speculation about the crimes still continues more than 100 years later .