Lizzie Borden

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Portrait of Lizzie Andrew Borden wearing a high-collared, dark lace dress with a flower at her neck, facing slightly to the side with a neutral expression.

A sepia-toned image of Lizzie Borden's face is overlaid with a bright white axe shape, containing blue text reading really a monster? Blurred text and stains appear in the background.

Black and white waist-up portrait of Lizzie Andrew Borden wearing a high-collared dark dress with puffed sleeves, standing with her hands resting on the back of a chair.

Black and white photo of the Borden House at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, a two-story wooden home with shutters and a bare tree in front.

Ambrotype portrait of Andrew Borden, an older man with receding gray hair, wearing a dark suit, vest, and bow tie, framed by an ornate oval mat.

Portrait of Abby Borden in a high-collared, buttoned dress, facing slightly to the side with short, curly hair.

Portrait of actress Nance O'Neil circa 1904, seated and wearing a high-necked, long-sleeved lace dress, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

Infographic titled Lizzie Borden rhyme featuring the famous rhyme about Lizzie Borden taking an ax, highlighted in yellow on a parchment background, with surrounding fact boxes about the Borden murders, trial, and details of the victims' injuries. Rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

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A sepia-toned image of Lizzie Borden's face is overlaid with a bright white axe shape, containing blue text reading really a monster? Blurred text and stains appear in the background.

Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With Murder?

“Lizzie Borden took an axe.” Or did she?

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Portrait of Lizzie Andrew Borden wearing a high-collared, dark lace dress with a flower at her neck, facing slightly to the side with a neutral expression.

Lizzie Borden, 1890

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Black and white waist-up portrait of Lizzie Andrew Borden wearing a high-collared dark dress with puffed sleeves, standing with her hands resting on the back of a chair.

Lizzie Borden

© Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

Black and white photo of the Borden House at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, a two-story wooden home with shutters and a bare tree in front.

The Borden House

Lizzie Borden and her family lived at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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Ambrotype portrait of Andrew Borden, an older man with receding gray hair, wearing a dark suit, vest, and bow tie, framed by an ornate oval mat.

Andrew Borden

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (84.XT.1562.9)

Portrait of Abby Borden in a high-collared, buttoned dress, facing slightly to the side with short, curly hair.

Abby Borden

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Lizzie Borden

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Portrait of actress Nance O'Neil circa 1904, seated and wearing a high-necked, long-sleeved lace dress, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

Nance O'Neil, c. 1904

Photo by William Armstrong © Library of Congress/VCG—Corbis Historical/Getty Images

Infographic titled Lizzie Borden rhyme featuring the famous rhyme about Lizzie Borden taking an ax, highlighted in yellow on a parchment background, with surrounding fact boxes about the Borden murders, trial, and details of the victims' injuries. Rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

The Lizzie Borden rhyme: Fact vs. fiction

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Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden and her attorney in the courtroom before her acquittal, sketch by B....

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3c23237)

Lizzie Borden, 1890

Lizzie Borden, 1890

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Grainy black and white obituary photo of John Vinnicum Morse, an older man with a beard and mustache, wearing a suit and tie, set against a dark background.

John Morse

On August 3, 1892, the day before Andrew and Abby Borden were killed, John Morse...

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