'Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.
Unlike their male counterparts, sexual or sadistic motives are rare among women serial killers. Instead, psychopathic traits & a childhood ridden with abuse, are often the reason behind a woman's killings. And if Lizzie & her sister were molested throughout their Victorian childhoods, Mr Bordon got off easy!