Accused hatchet murderer Lizzie Borden had a very dedicated older sister, one who looked past and tried to ignore the family’s ruinous headlines that filled newspapers at the turn of the century.

The unmarried sisters lived together for most of their lives, except for a brief “falling out of unknown reasons” in 1905. Emma died in 1927, just nine days after Lizzie.

Lizzie Borden was the East Coast bloodcurdling counterpart to Northwest Indiana’s poison pen killer Belle Gunness of LaPorte, both women sharing the same turn of the century era sensational headlines of the late 1800s and early 1900s for their crimes of murdering family members for what was suspected financial gain of insurance policies and inheritance.

Gunness at age 48 “disappeared,” and was thought to have fled after settin

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