The Lizzie Borden Case Revisited

A review of some of the facts and misconceptions of the original “Crime of the Century.”

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

Lizzie

Chances are that you’ve heard that nursery rhyme at some point in your life. It may be your only knowledge of the…