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The Woman Who Snapped

The song goes, "Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother 40 whacks," but how much truth is behind the tune? Although she was never convicted, Borden's alleged crimes - murdering her stepmother and father - continue to haunt us. Was she an ordinary girl caught in an extraordinary situation? Or was she what society labeled her: a "Woman Who Snapped"?

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