Lizzie Borden is suspected of the axe-murder…

Lizzie Borden is suspected of the axe-murder of her stepmother and father on August 4, 1892.

Arrested and tried for both murders in June 1893, her trial becomes a national sensation in the United States.

The popular, red-haired daughter of a well-to-do businessman who married for a second time in 1865, three years after the death of Lizzie's mother died, is acquitted, given the circumstantial evidence, but is nonetheless ostracized thereafter by the people of her native Fall River, Massachusetts, where she will continue to live until her death in 1927.

The grisly murders will inspire a great many books, both serious studies and fiction, and one immortal, if slightly inaccurate, quatrain: "Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; And when she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one."

An American folk group, the Kingston Trio, will revive this verse in their popular song about her, written in the late 1950s.