Oliver Wadsworth, Sofia Jean Gomez Photo

From: Photo Flash: Lizzie Borden Comes to Life in the World Premiere of FALL RIVER

Before O.J. Simpson, there was Lizzie Borden. Whether, as the children's rhyme goes, she really took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks, then turned and gave her father 41, we'll never know for sure, but 125 years ago it was The Crime of the Century.