text: The plot where Lizzie Borden and her family are buried in Fall River, Massachusetts, was vandalized . The final resting place of Lizzie Borden and the father and stepmother she was accused of killing was vandalized over the weekend. The Borden family burial monument at Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts was defaced with black and green paint. The vandalism was discovered on Monday, the day after a Lifetime miniseries, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, premiered on Sunday night. Borden went on trial for brutally murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet in their Fall River home in 1892. She was acquitted, but her innocence is questioned even today. The murder and trial inspired the schoolyard rhyme: 'Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. 'When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41'. The house where the murders occurred is still standing. It is located next to the Bristol Superior Court House, the venue where the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is taking place. Borden went on trial for brutally murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet in their home in 1892 . The historic Lizzie Borden house, where the killings of her father and stepmother took place, still stands today . The murder and trial surrounding Borden made her a cult figure and led to an appearance on the Simpsons . This is not the first time the plot, which also contains Lizzie's sister Emma, has been vandalized, the Herald News reported. Cemetery director Tony Eaton said: 'I'd like to catch the guys who did it. 'I don't know what the reason is for putting that on a grave stone. 'It just irks me... not just when it's Lizzie Borden, but anyone.' In addition to graffiti, the Borden grave has also been covered with pennies, flowers, notes, amulets, chicken claws, feathers, blood and urine in the past. Borden, who was acquitted of murder, died from complications following gall bladder surgery at the age of 66 . Christina Ricci is playing Borden in a Lifetime miniseries, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, that began on Sunday . Historian and author Shelley Dziedzic said the start of the show may have led to the graffiti, according to the Boston Globe. Dziedzic said: 'My thinking is it's probably related to the Lifetime series that debuted. 'Anytime the programs are on television there's a huge influx in visitors.' The new show, which stars Christina Ricci, is 'an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie's life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892', according to Lifetime, . Ricci's character is an 'exonerated figure' who 'lives a life awash in newfound celebrity filled with scandalous love affairs'. Borden died from complications following gall bladder surgery at the age of 66.
target: Lizzie Borden and her family are buried in Fall River, Massachusetts .
  Their plot at Oak Grove Cemetery was defaced with black and green paint .
  Speculated graffiti is related to Lifetime's The Lizzie Borden Chronicles .
  Borden was acquitted after going on trial for the two murders in 1892 .
  Inspired rhyme: 'Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks'
  Historic murder house is adjacent to where Aaron Hernandez is on trial .