Episode 36: Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden. The name has been etched into the American consciousness through countless books, movies, even a heavy metal band and a haunting and disturbing children’s rhyme which you can hear on playgrounds to this day.

She was the first, modern American Psycho, a woman of class and privilege who caved her parent’s heads in with an axe.

Theories over her innocence or guilt, as well as the vicious and brutal murders themselves, abound, titillating tales of lesbian affairs, incestual sex, and bloody killings committed in the nude.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we break it all down for you: the strange Borden family, their weird house, the details of the gruesome murder and all the wild conspiracy theories explored and explained.

So, buckle up into the murder coaster, for off we go, with the tale of Lizzie Borden.

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References:

A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight by Victoria Lincoln

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller

Lizzie Borden. The Trial, the Truth, the Final Chapter by Arnold R. Brown

Goodbye Lizzie Borden. The Story of the Trial of America’s Most Famous Murderess by Robert Sullivan

The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson

Lizzie 2018 American biographical thriller film directed by Craig William Macneill, written by Bryce Kass, and starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart.

The Curse of Lizzie Borden 2022 documentary by Dave Schrader

The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 television film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Elizabeth Montgomery

Official Lizzie Borden House (lizzie-borden.com)

Lizzie Borden House – Haunted Houses

Lizzie Borden House: One Of The Most Haunted Places In Massachusetts (onlyinyourstate.com)