Have you ever heard the story of Lizzie Borden?

If so, your first introduction to her may have been in the form of a nursery rhyme.

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 wax,

and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.

The town of Fall River, Massachusetts was the union of industry and affluence

during America's gilded age.

So when the wealthy Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby,

were violently murdered, suspicion soon fell on Andrew's younger daughter, Lizzie. The murder case

turned into the trial of the century at the time and pit the wealthy and working classes

against one another. And while the eerie rhyme of Lizzie would become widely popular,

this legend gets many things wrong, including one key detail.

Lizzie Borden was acquitted for this gruesome crime,

and the chilling case remains unsolved to this day.

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. The Borden House was not without its own troubles prior to the 1892 murders.

Andrew Borden, a wealthy yet frugal man, married his second wife, Abby, three years after the death of his first wife, Sarah, who was the mother of his children.

It's been said that Lizzie and Abby did not

have a cordial relationship, and that Lizzie would refer to her stepmother as Mrs. Borden, believing

she only married her father for his wealth. On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden would reach

their bloody ends.

Lizzie reportedly discovered her father's body early that afternoon.

Andrew had been struck numerous times in the head with a hatchet,

so much so that his face was said to have resembled raw meat.

...