“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one.” This folk rhyme was first used as a newspaper headline in 1892, the year of the indictment of Ms. Lizzie Borden for the murders of her stepmother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Borden. The exoneration of Lizzie Borden proved that, even in a court of law, women were and still are judged unreasonably because of their sex. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered by a hatchet in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Detectives at the scene immediately suspected Mr. Borden’s youngest daughter, Lizzie, as she was the only person in the house; however she was not taken into custody