Lizzie Borden: 40 Whacks
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Lizzie Borden: 40 Whacks revisits one of America’s most notorious murder cases, using rediscovered police interrogation files to examine the evidence, conflicting accounts and family tensions surrounding the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden. In August 1892, wealthy businessman Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were found brutally murdered with an axe inside their home. Suspicion soon fell on Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, whose trial would grip America and inspire more than a century of speculation, folklore and a famous nursery rhyme.
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