Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden was an American woman who was accused and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892. The murders were particularly brutal, and Lizzie was the prime suspect. She was eventually acquitted of the crime, but the case remains infamous and unsolved to this day. The rhyme \"Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one\" is often associated with the case, although in reality the stepmother was given only 18 or 19 blows, while the father received 11.