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his old nursery rhyme may be easy to remember, but its also inaccurate. According to a pathologist who analyzed the victims skulls, Lizzie Bordens mother received nineteen whacks, her father only eleven. Its also up for dispute whether Lizzie even wielded the deadly axe herself, since she was ultimately acquitted. For the third stop on our tour of strange museums in Massachusetts, Morning Edition host Bob Oakes went to Fall River, where, on August 4,1892, someone hacked Andrew and Abby Borden to death.

 

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