A CREEPY rhyme sung by children is based on one of the most sensational unsolved killings in history. WARNING: Graphic. When a wealthy businessman and his second wife were axed to death inside their ...

You’ve heard the nursery rhyme (if anything so gruesome can be called a nursery rhyme): “Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother 40 whacks.” The goth-rock musical this 19th century New Englander ...

Word for Word's production of "The Fall River Axe Murders" is just another in a long line of art-related works about Lizzie Borden. Here are examples of some works about her: Dance: Choreographer ...

The story behind the infamous nursery rhyme about Lizzie Borden will be shown in a play at the Broadway Theatre. “Lizzie Borden of Fall River,” by Tim Kelly, will be put on at the Broadway Theatre for ...

Lizzie Borden was famously acquitted for the axe murders of her father and stepmother in the summer of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she remained the prime suspect, Borden was never ...

“Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother 40 whacks…” and so goes the familiar, twisted nursery rhyme we are all familiar with. Well, just in time for the Halloween season, Lee Street is serving up a ...

ONCE EVERY generation or so a person or event becomes so famous, so universally known and talked about, that it crosses the line from history into folklore. This happened to railroad legends Casey ...

Lizzie Borden is an infamous murderer whose story has become something of a nursery rhyme. And now, as part of Ryan Murphy's Monsters series, he's getting ready to tell her tale. Murphy and his ...

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Lizzie Borden being acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. Lizzie was found not guilty by a jury of 12 men in a New Bedford courtroom on June ...

In June 1893 Lizzie Borden stood trial, later acquitted, for killing her father and stepmother with an ax. FALL RIVER, Mass. (WJW) – Many know the chilling nursery rhyme; even though America’s ...