Think of where you would be on a warm day in the middle of summer. Children are playing outside, birds are chirping, and Lizzie Borden is killing her father and step-mom. The then thirty-two year old Lizzie became known as a murderer in 1892.
             Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma both lived in a large country house with their wealthy father and stepmother. One day, while Lizzie's father and sister were out and the maid was in the garden, Lizzie went up to her step-mom's room and murdered her with an axe. Later when her dad got home and the maid was upstairs sleeping, Lizzie brutally whacked her father with an axe while he was resting.
             Why would sweet Lizzie ever do such a thing? Her motive was plain and simple, money. At the event of her parents' death, Lizzie would be rewarded with $175,000. Her motive was obviously money, and who wouldn't want it.
             After a thorough investigation of the murders and crime scene, it was concluded that Lizzie committed a few part I offenses. Lack of proof would be the best words to describe her trial. The dress that people testified as the one Lizzie was wearing on the day of the murder caused much confusion. She apparently switched dresses in-between murders and burned the one with the bloodstains. The axe she used also showed no signs of blood or use. The plain fact that in 1892 a woman just wasn't capable of murder and a sweet, innocent smile assured the jury that Lizzie could not have been the killer. She was acquitted and free from the charge of murder. Later, Lizzie moved into a nice large house in Fall River where she lived a happy as can be until she died on June 1st, 1927.
             Maybe she didn't leave this world with a jail sentence, but she did leave us this legendary poem:
             She gave her father forty-one."
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