Lizzie Borden took an axe,
and gave her mother forty wacks,
And when the job was done,
She gave her father forty-one.
On August 4th, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and Abby Durfee Borden were found dead in their home, the victims of a brutal hatchet murder. The main suspect was Andrew’s daughter Lizzie. The trial of Lizzie Borden was a national news story and over a century later the story is still an American legend.
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