This clipart of Edgar Allan Poe was taken from the Court TV website about crime. This website is very similar to the Crime Library website. Poe was famous for writing murder stories. One of his short stories, The Premature Burial, was loosely based on actual events. People were in fact buried alive in the 19th century when Poe lived.
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This photo shows Abby Borden, one of the two victims. The other victim was Andrew Borden, her husband. Andrew was wealthy, which may have provided a motive.
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This hatchet was the type of weapon suspected because of the wounds. The clipart is from the Lizzie Borden website. The poem says "axe", but the poem was not precise.
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Shown here is Rev. Martin Luther King, who was murdered in 1968. The art is from www.arthursclipart.com, a website in South Africa.
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Abe Lincoln was shot in the Ford theater in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. There are conspiracy theories. One of them implicated Stanton, the Secretary of War.
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This photo of Lizzie Borden is from the Lizzie Borden website. Lizzie was convicted in the poem but was acquitted by the jury. The murders of her parents were in Fall River, Massachusetts. A hatchet was probably the murder weapon, but the weapon was never found. This is probably one of the reasons Lizzie was acquitted. Lizzie did not take off, but the real murderer probably took off with the bloody hatchet.
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Shown here is Andrew Borden, who was murdered in 1892, which was not long after the Jack the Ripper murders in London. There was no connection between the Jack the Ripper murders and the Fall River tragedy except that both were horrible. In both situations the real killer was never found.
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Stalin had Trotsky murdered after Trotsky published an article accusing Stalin of having Lenin poisoned. Stalin also ordered the massacre of Polish army officers. This later turned out to be a mistake when Hitler invaded Poland.
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Julius Caesar was assasinated on the Ides of March by Cassius and a gang of conspirators in ancient Rome.
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Here is a thumbnail sized drawing of Henry VIII and his wives. It seems that a Queen lost her head when the Church of England refused to give Henry a divorce. This is a scandal that lives in infamy in British history.
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