The Real Lizzie Borden Murders

Crime Scene · Sep 17, 2026 · 49m

Before you watch the new Netflix series, you need to know the real story.

Lizzie Borden’s infamous rhyme says she gave her mother forty whacks, but nearly every word of it is wrong. Now, as Netflix’s new Monsters series tells the story again, we return to the blood-soaked house that launched more than a century of books, films, and theories, all chasing the same impossible question: if Lizzie didn’t do it, who did?

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