90: Lizzie Borden & the House on Second Street | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories

True Crime Sleep Stories · Oct 7, 2026 · 30m

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"Lizzie Borden took an axe,

And gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done,

She gave her father forty-one."

The kids jump-rope rhyme got almost everything wrong. It was not an axe, it was not her mother, and the forty whacks were made up to fit the beat. Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893. Nobody else was ever charged. More than 130 years later, the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still unsolved, a case that went cold because 1892 had no tools to close it.

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