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“LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE....”

...and gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she
gave her father forty-one. Or so they say. Lizzie Borden was acquitted on June
20, 1893, on lack of direct evidence.
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She tried to purchase poison the day before, and she was the first to report her
father’s death. But nothing tied her to the wounds that killed him and his wife.
Should she have been?
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