the cases that haunt us post 2

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~there is a nursery rhyme at the begining of the chapter
-this case was about Lizzie Borden
-her stepmother and father were killed while they slept in the middle of the day
-someone illed them with an axe to the face/head and lizzies was a prime susupect
-she was found not guilty and the crime is still a mysery

4 questions
-who killed them?
-How come Lizzie didn't weep?
-why did she burn the dress?
why would someone make a nursery rhyme out of this horrific crime?

3 vocabulary words
-euphemism-
-precursors
-frugality

2 Literary terms
-therr was nothing much for the police to sink their teeth into"
-but iam always wary of considering this subject iin a vacuum"

1 overview sentence
Lizzie is suspected of killing her parents in 1888 with an axe.