Hang Out in Salem with Lizzie Borden
Today’s guest post is from Mary Jo Manzanares, b5media’s Travel & Cuture Channel Editor and travel blogger at Flyaway Cafe.
“Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”
On August 4th, 1892, wealthy businessmen Andrew Borden, and his wife Abby, were discovered brutally murdered. In reality, Abby was killed with nine blows of an axe, and Andrew with 11. Their youngest daughter, Lizzie, stood trial for the brutal slayings, and was found not guilty. The crime, however, continues to draw speculation as to Lizzie’s actual guilt or innocence, …read more
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