Have you heard of Lizzie Borden? Lizzie Borden was an American woman suspected of murdering her stepmother and father in 1892; her trial became a national sensation in the United States. There was even a the popular rhyme about the Borden murders: “Lizzie Borden took an ax/And gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one.” But was Lizzie Borden guilty or innocent?