r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/iMissTheOldTimeye • 13d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/isnoe 13d ago

Is this a reference to the lady that killed her children and for some reason the crime TikTok community (mostly women) have taken to defending her and even blaming the Husband, who 100% did not do it?

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u/TomBirkenstock 13d ago

Reminds me of Lizzy Borden who was acquitted of murdering her parents in part because in the late nineteenth century people did not believe that women had it in them to axe someone to death.

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u/MrArborsexual 13d ago

Decades later in 1993 we get "So I Married an Axe Murderer"

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u/Particular_Title42 13d ago

Which is such a great movie.