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Signature. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. [1] No one else was charged in the murders, and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River.
- Suspected homicide
- Lizzie Andrew Borden, July 19, 1860, Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Lizbeth Borden
- Oak Grove Cemetery
Thanks to a grisly schoolyard poem — Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother 40 whacks… — her name remains far better known than the actual facts of what happened. Borden’s story has been...
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Dec 19, 2017 · The basic facts are as follows: on 4 August 1892 Lizzie Borden alerted the family maid, Bridget Sullivan, to her father’s mutilated body. He had been hit 10 or 11 times with “a hatchet-like...
May 3, 2024 · Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
Aug 1, 1992 · Aug. 1, 1992. Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41' . -- 1892 ditty PARA: By JILL RADSKEN. FALL RIVER, Mass. --...
Jun 20, 2017 · Lizzie Borden took an axe. And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done. She gave her father forty-one. The murder of Andrew Borden (Lizzie’s father) and Abby Borden (Lizzie’s stepmother) occurred on 4 August 1892, in the family home the two shared with Lizzie and her sister Emma.
Aug 4, 2015 · Lizzie Borden took an ax. And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
