FALL RIVER, Mass. —

On a sweltering August day in 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. Their skulls were caved in with a hatchet. Lizzie Borden was charged with her parents’ murders, inspiring the chilling rhyme that still echoes today:

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

Lizzie Borden was later acquitted. One researcher said, “If she did not swing the ax, she knows who did.”

Theories of financial motives, family feuds and even madness surround the case, but no one was ever convicted.

Over a century later, Lizzie Borden’s story captivates and remains one of history’s most chilling unsolved mysteries.

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