Emma Borden was packing her bag, ready to travel from Fall River to Fairhaven. She had just found out that her stepmother, Abby Borden, had convinced her father, Andrew Borden, to change his will so that Abby would inherit everything after Andrew’s death. This would leave Emma and Emma’s younger sister, Lizzie Borden, penniless and homeless. Emma needed to get away for her home in order to calm down, otherwise she knew she would end up doing something she knew she would regret