Lizzie and OJ have a few things in common.

1- They both killed two people in ugly and gruesome ways.
2- They were both found not guilty, but the general public begs to differ.
3- They were both swamped by media and made a spectacle in the courts.
4- They both will go down in history as the ones that 'got away with it'.

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However little one might know about Lizzie Borden, she is forever immortalized in the playground verse:

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

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She lived in Fall River, Massachusetts with her Father and Stepmother.
She allegedly killed them both on August 4, 1892.

The best outline of the whole story of the murder and 'trail by media' is found at TruTV.com
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/borden/index_1.html

The famous house where Lizzie lived and (allegedly) killed her parents is now a Bed & Breakfast, and is quoted as being one of the most haunted places in the US.
If you dare, you can spend the night in the famous house and hope you don't feel any sharp pains as you sleep!
http://www.lizzie-borden.com/
Source(s):
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/borden/index_1....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
http://www.prairieghosts.com/lizzie.html

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