On Aug. 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s parents were found murdered. Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Lizzie’s father was found in a pool of blood on the living room couch, his face nearly split in two, according to police documents. Abby was upstairs, her head smashed to pieces; it was later determined that she was killed first.

Lizzie was 32 and single, still living in the home with her father and stepmother. Other than the family’s maid, Lizzie was allegedly the only one in the home with Andrew and Abby, leading her to become the main suspect. She was soon arrested and charged with the double homicide.

As a result of the crime’s sensational nature, her trial attracted national attention. To this day, the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still talked about.

Lizzie and her sister reportedly despised their stepmother and, as adults, argued with their father over money. Lizzie claimed she was in the barn at the time of the murders and entered the house later that morning to find her father dead in the living room.

Because of the circumstantial evidence presented against Lizzie, the jury quickly found her innocent of the heinous crime in which she was accused. The fact that no blood was found on Lizzie coupled with her well-bred Christian persona convinced the all-male jury that she was incapable of the gruesome crime and they quickly acquitted her.

Different reports allege that Lizzie first tried to poison her father and stepmother the day before her murder and burned a dress days after the murders. Lizzie’s fingerprints were never tested, nor was the murder weapon, a hatchet, tested for prints.

Lizzie reportedly inherited a substantial amount of money after her father’s death and moved from the murder site into a different home, where she lived until her death on June 1, 1927.

Today, the house where the Borden murders occurred is a bed and breakfast. Despite Lizzie Borden’s acquittal, the cloud of suspicion that hung over her never disappeared.

She is immortalized in a famous 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.

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