"Lizzie Borden took an Axe..."
Today I’m coming to you with the story of one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history. One that inspired a schoolyard rhyme that everyone knows:] “Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41.” Although it is historically inaccurate, we’ve all heard it. Even if you weren’t born and raised in Lizzie’s hometown like I was, you have heard that song. I remember when I was in high school, we were at a rest stop in New Jersey for a school trip to Hershey, PA. One of the locals asked where we were from and when we responded “Fall River, MA” we were immediately met with “ah, Lizzie Borden.” Now everyone has their own theory about how the murder went down, and before we get to my opinion, we’ll start with what we know for sure. Lizzie: The Early Years The younger of two sisters, Elizabeth Andrew Borden was born in 1860 to Andrew and Sarah Borden. Sarah di...