![]() But the townsfolk of Fall River never stopped believing that she was guilty and ostracized her for the rest of her life. Police could find no evidence of who committed the crime, but arrested their daughter Lizzy and charged her with murder.īecause the evidence against her was purely circumstantial, she was acquitted after the jury deliberated for less than an hour. On August 4, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and his second wife, Abby, were bludgeoned to death with an ax, New England Today reports. That might not be how the original rhyme goes, but it is more accurate since Lizzie was acquitted of her parents' murder in 1893. ![]() Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she allegedly gave her father 41. ![]() The Borden home in Fall River, Massachusetts.ĭonna Hageman/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images ![]()
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