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Infamous America

LIZZIE BORDEN Ep. 1 | “Axe Murders”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

August 4, 1892 is a hot day in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden house is quiet until 30-year-old Lizzie screams that her father has been killed. Shortly thereafter, the body of her stepmother is discovered. The murders are gruesome. There are no witnesses; no clues; and within days, suspicion falls squarely on Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Borden rhyme performed by Anita Mansfield anitamansfield.com Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials : blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0

A listener note. This episode contains some brief graphic description of a violent crime.

0:59.0

Listener discretion is advised.

1:02.0

Music

1:15.0

Lizzy Borden Tulkanax

1:22.0

Gave her mother for dewex when she saw what she had done.

1:35.0

She gave her father for dee one.

1:42.0

Music

1:52.0

Lizzy Borden Tulkanax

1:55.0

It's often hard to remember when one first heard the rhyme that starts with those four words.

2:00.0

Children all over the country seem to learn the poem about murder through some sort of cultural osmosis.

2:07.0

Like ring around the rosy or three blind mice, it's a rhyme based in a history that is unknown to most who recite it.

2:15.0

But unlike those other poems, the story of Lizzy Borden isn't obscured by forgotten references or metaphor.

2:22.0

The story told by this rhyme is pretty clear.

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