“Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” The famous rhyme commemorates the most infamous double murder of the 19th ...

You know, the one from the really creepy nursery rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” courtesy Ghost ...

Around 130 years ago, Lizzie Borden allegedly hacked her way into infamy by brutally murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. Despite what the famous rhyme claims, the pair only sustained a ...

The resulting murder trial received enormous nationwide publicity and led to the famous rope-skipping rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks, and when she saw what she had ...

"Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one." You know the rhyme, you may even know about the crime, but what happened ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” That rhyme has been passed down through the ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. — “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” That rhyme has been passed down through the ...

Her supposed role in the brutal murder was immortalized in the old playground rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her ...