The infamous story of Fall River's Lizzie Borden has become one of New England's most haunting legends, but there was another gruesome killing in the Borden family that has received little attention — until now.

In the basement of Miss Lizzie's Coffee, which is right next door to the Borden House in Downtown Fall River, it's said that a great aunt of Lizzie Borden killed her two young children before taking her own life — decades before the notorious trial shook the South Coast region.

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It's a story that was even unknown to the Pereira family, who opened the coffee shop in 2023, completely unaware that the building housing their new business had a dark past.

"People started coming in and asking us, 'Do you know wha

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