The Fall River Murders of 1892 are unsolved crimes that occupy an iconic status in the annals of American history. However, the murders are most recognizable by the name “Lizzie Borden”. All one has to do is speak that name, and images of a Victorian-American woman swinging a bloody axe over her dead parents is evoked. These images are fueled by the familiar bit of doggerel that we all learned when we were young: “Lizzie Borden took an axe/ Gave her mother forty whacks/ When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one.”