Crime & Criminal Biographies, Lizzie Borden, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1800-1899, Abby Durfee Gray Borden, Andrew Jackson Borden, Trials, Murder 

"Currently, as this is written, there are eighteen thousand murders committed annually in the United States. This shocking statistic means that every half-hour of every average day someone somewhere in this country falls victim to the most aggravated heinousness, to that ultimate crime-murder. It is perplexing that the American public, swimming as it is in a sea of contemporary violence, still finds the trial of Lizzie Borden in the early 1890's the most continually absorbing case in the annals of this nation's homicides. Many sensational murder trials of the twentieth century have received extensive press notice, and a few have been given saturation news coverage. it is unlikely, however, that any capital crime has held such a firm purchase on public attention and so completely engrossed the nation's press as did the savage butchery of Andrew Jackson Borden and his wife, Abby in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892 and the trial of their daughter Lizzie in nearby New Bedford the following year..." - Preface 

Contents:
List of illustrations
The fascination: a preface
The Borden and the town
Day of horror
The anatomy of accusation
Juris personae
Carnival time in Old New Bedford
Trial I: the prosecution
Trial II: the defense
Trial III: Arguments, Charge and verdict
Behind the verdict
From acquittal
Appendix
I: Testimony of Lizzie Andre Borden
II: Charge to the jury by Dewey, J.
Memorandum of law
Bibliography
Index 

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-240) and index.