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We have all heard the rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one". But do you know the cold case behind the rhyme? On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden are brutally hacked to death with a ...  Show more

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.
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Lizzie Borden was immortalized in song, and the rhyme about the murder of her parents became entrenched in popular culture, even though few remember who Lizzie Borden actually was. But did the Lizzie from the song actually kill her stepmother and father with an axe? Or was it dec ...  Show more

This week we dive into one of the most notorious conundrums in true crime history, the mysterious case of Lizzie Borden and the Axe Murders of 1892.

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