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Description of  Fatal Families - Unleashing the evil within (Infamous Murderers)

Lizzie Borden suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy which caused her to have 'funny spells' when she lost all control. Those spells became more frequent during the hot steamy summer of 1892. The temperature was rising and inside the Borden House extreme evil was boiling over. Lizzie Borden's sister and father were both hacked to death with an axe. Lizzie was arrested for murdering her own family. Read about the axe killer Lizzie Borden in Fatal Families along with many other gruesome real-life stories of those who unleash their innermost hatred on the people they love. Contents: Alice Arden of Faversham, Abbe Guerra and the Cenci Family, Alexander Balfour, Catherine Hayes, John Vicars, Lydia Adler, Mary Blandy, John Williamson, Rev James Hackman, Bartholomew Quailin, Elizabeth Marsh, The Duc de Praslin, Elizabeth Martha Brown, Mary Wheeler, Lizzie Borden, Dr Crippen, Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, 'The Man from the Pru', Alma Rattenbury and George Stoner, Ruth Ellis