<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lizzie Borden took an axe</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gave her mother forty whacks</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When she saw what she had done</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She gave her father forty one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But did Lizzie Borden </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>really</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> murder her parents?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the morning of August 4 1892 Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered in their home just a few steps from passersby on busy Second Street. No trace of the killer or killers was found.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There were suspects though.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The daughters Emma and Lizzie Borden were suddenly wealthy women. Lizzie and the Borden family maid Bridget had both been home at the time of the murders but swore they saw nothing. Uncle John had stayed unexpectedly in the Borden guest room the night before the murders though he'd brought no luggage.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lizzie quickly became the focus of attention and then the main suspect.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But did she kill?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Exhaustively researched Killing the Bordens tells the true crime Borden murder mystery and the life of Lizzie Borden as a novel and reveals who committed the murders how and why.</span></p>