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This Month's Subject:

Lizzie Borden

IN THE ARCHIVES:

The Bone Church
The Black Dahlia
Creepy Cemetery Statues
Funeral Hearses Throughout Time
The Mutter Museum
The Bog People
The Real Bonnie and Clyde
Circus Freaks

Andrew Borden, above

Abby Borden

Andrew and Abby Borden when alive

The Murder Weapon

Andrew Autopsy

Andrew skull on the left, Abby skull on the right

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden

The House

Lizzie Borden's grave, where someone placed a doll

Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

This old nursery rhyme may be easy to remember, but it's also inaccurate. According to a pathologist who analyzed the victims' skulls, Lizzie Borden's stepmother received nineteen whacks, and her father received eleven. It's also up for dispute whether Lizzie even wielded the deadly axe herself, since she was ultimately acquitted. All that is known for sure is that on August 4, 1892, someone viciously hacked Andrew and Abby Borden to death.

Today, there is a bed and breakfast in the original Lizzie Borden House, located in Fall River, Massachusetts, where there is a museum exhibiting murder memorabilia. You can find the Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast at: http://www.lizzie-borden.com/

To learn more about Lizzie Borden, see HERE.

A graphic novel by Rick Geary describing the details about Lizzie and the evidence about the murders can be found HERE:

Abby autopsy

The family plot