Lizzie Borden axe murderess In American folklore the term was synonymous Se wake the maid who was napping in her bed As Lizzie yelled to the maide, father is dead! Lizzie Borden took an axe Gaver her stepmother twenty whacks While on the couch her father slept She hacked him till no life was left Her stepmother was hacked as she made the bed With father on the couch nine axe wounds to his head It seems that Lizzie would of had some motive And time to destroy incriminating evidence Lizzie's alibi was very weak at best She was the mains suspect which led to her arrest Then they charged Lizzie Borden with the axe murders The slaughter of her stepmother and her father And Lizzie Borden's trial was irrelevant Because the evidence was insufficient And even though she probably did it Lizzie Borden was acquited