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The nursery rhyme is familiar to nearly everyone: ?Lizzie Borden took an axe?.? The story behind it, however, is obscured by time and legend.
THE STRANGE CASE OF LIZZIE BORDEN relives the grisly murder of the Bordens, searching for the truth about the crime. For the first time, documentary cameras are allowed in the former Borden house, now a bed-and-breakfast with a macabre allure.
Scholars and historians help set the record straight about Lizzie and the crime. Explore the details that make the story so fascinating: though she was found innocent of the murders she became a pariah in the community; the trial was a lightning rod for early feminists, who claimed that her sex prevented Lizzie from getting a fair trial. And see how the legend of Lizzie Borden grew over the years, and why it lives on to this day.
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