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Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the crime of killing her father and
stepmother with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. No-one else will ever be arrested or tried for the murders and Borden will remain a notorious figure in American folklore, the subject of such songs as You Can't Chop Your Poppa Up In Massachusetts Lizzie Bordon (1955) by Penny Nicholls And The Canadians, You Can't Chop Your Papa Up In Massachusetts (1961) by The Chad Mitchell Trio, She Took An Axe (1986) by Flotsam and Jetsam, Lizzie Borden by Macabre (2010), and Ballad Of Lizzie Borden (2011) by Rasputina.