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Jun 22, 2010 · RECOMMENDED. Kinda schlocky. Kinda brilliant. Totally fun. That’s “40 Whacks, ” the new show from the Annoyance Theatre. It’s based upon the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case and trial from the late nineteenth century, and this original work, by writer Aggie Hewitt and director Irene Marquette, with musical direction by Lisa McQueen, appropriates something between a melodramatic play ...
Feb 4, 1992 · It was nearly a century ago, on Aug. 4, 1892, that the Bordens were found hacked to death in their Fall River home. Their 33-year-old Sunday school teacher daughter Lizzie was charged with the ...
Apr 15, 2019 · Lizzie was acquitted and lived out her life in Fall River, but a century later, the jury, so to speak, is still out. Did Lizzie indeed give her mother 40 whacks, and then her father 41, as the ...
Jun 12, 2017 · In 1892, at age 32, she was charged with the horrific murders of her father, Andrew, 70, and her stepmother, Abby, 64. Both died from multiple ax blows that crushed their skulls. The Bordens were one of Fall River’s wealthiest families, and Lizzie was a churchgoer who hardly fit the part of bloody ax murderer.
Lizzie Borden took an ax. Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done. She gave her father 41. But did she really? In this episode, we tell the story of Lizzie Borden and the other suspects in the case who you've probably never heard of. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit https://crimejunkie.app ...
Dec 19, 2017 · In 2014 US cable channel Lifetime showed a television film, Lizzie Borden Took An Ax, and followed that up with a 2015 series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, both of which received a mixed response.
Apr 6, 2011 · One to two hours later, someone did a similar hatchet-job on Andrew Borden as he rested on the sofa downstairs, with another 10 or 11 whacks. So the ditty is wrong. You know the one: ”Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” Wasn’t her mother, it was her step mother.
