“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Andrew Borden now is dead,
Lizzie hit him on the head.
Up in heaven he will sing,
On the gallows she will swing.“
Lizzie Andrew Borden (19 July 1860 – 01 June 1927) was tried and acquitted of the 04 August 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA.
The 1975 television film The Legend of Lizzie Borden starred Bewitched’s Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie Borden. After Elizabeth Montgomery’s death it was discovered that she and Lizzie Borden were sixth cousins once removed, with both being descended from 17th-century Massachusetts resident Samuel Luther and his wife Sarah.
Rhonda McClure, the genealogist who documented the Montgomery-Borden connection, said: “I wonder how Elizabeth would have felt if she knew she was playing her own cousin.”[113]
Lizzie Borden is at the center of one of the most brutal murders in American history. She was charged and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother…but was she guilty? If so, what was her motive? And if not, then who really did it?
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This is a nice lighted post even though the subject is not light-hearted. I wonder why I am glad she was acquitted? Anyway, proof reading, I think dead below in red should be death.
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Good proofreading! I had noticed and corrected before seeing your comment, but am sure there will be other typos in the various articles, so corrections are always welcome.
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