A Fall River Tragedy

Lizzie Borden took an axe

She gave her mother 40 whacks

When she saw what she had done

She gave her father 41

RIP Lizzie, Emma, Andrew J and Abby Durfee Gray Borden

'Twas on this day in 1892 that my family's neighbors in Fall River, Massachusetts discovered old Mr. Borden and his younger second wife had been butchered in their 92 Second Street home.

The rest, as they say, is history. Contrary to popular belief, Lizzie was ultimately acquitted of the charges.