Forty Whacks Never Happened: The Real Lizzie Borden Story
Forty Whacks Never Happened: The Real Lizzie Borden Axe Murders
How did an entire culture memorize a double murder incorrectly? The rhyme says Lizzie Borden gave her mother forty whacks, but the victim wasn't her mother, the weapon likely wasn't an axe, and the real count was twenty-nine blows, not eighty-one. So why does the smaller, truer number make the case darker? And what were the two pieces of evidence the jury that acquitted Lizzie Borden never got to hear?
In this episode, we go inside 92 Second Street in Fall River on August 4, 1892: Abby Borden struck about nineteen times while…
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