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The famous 'Lizzie Borden took an axe' rhyme claims 40 and 41 blows. The real 1892 autopsy record says otherwise — and the rhyme itself started out with different numbers entirely.
Lizzie Borden was tried for the 1892 murders of her father and stepmother and acquitted in June 1893. Here's what evidence was excluded, what the defense argued, and what acquittal actually means.
A chronology-first look at the real 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts — the crime scene, the evidence, and what remains unknown more than 130 years later.