Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She?

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks… The popular schoolyard rhyme has withstood the test of time, despite it getting a few details wrong. Over 130 years later, we still don’t really know who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. Lizzie was acquitted, and yet most people assume she was guilty. Is it possible Lizzie was truly innocent? And if she didn’t swing the hatchet that day – who did?

Sources for this episode include:

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James

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