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5 days ago · Lizzie Borden, American woman suspected of murdering her stepmother and father in 1892; her trial became a national sensation in the United States. An axe, the suspected murder weapon, was recovered at the crime scene, but Borden was acquitted in the ensuing trial, as the evidence against her was circumstantial.
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5 days ago · Lizzie Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and step mother in Falls Rivers, Massachusetts.
5 days ago · And the suspected killer was immortalized by an eerie rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. The rhyme is not quite correct: the female victim was Borden’s stepmother, and the weapon wasn’t an ax, but rather a hatchet.
5 days ago · The chilling tale of Lizzie Borden, a story that has haunted American history for over a century. The name Lizzie Borden is synonymous with one of the most n...
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4 days ago · 3 min read. The Hatchet is a journal devoted to the examination and investigation of the Borden Murders of 1892. Written for both the novice and seasoned Lizzie Borden enthusiast, The Hatchet takes a literate and entertaining approach through wide-ranging feature essays, reviews and criticism, interviews, fiction, art, poetry, and humor.
2 days ago · 157 3rd St. Fall River, Massachusetts Lizzie Borden is well known as an ax murderer even though she was acquitted of the crimes. In 1892, her father and stepmother were found brutally murdered in ...
2 days ago · 6. In the playground verse about Lizzie Borden, how many whacks did she give her mother? "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother ____ whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father ____ one."
