The Gruesome True Murder Mystery Behind Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
The eight-episode series adds gothic style and a female-centered lens to the unsolved murders that drew more than 3,000 pages of trial testimony.
- On September 17, Netflix released Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the fourth installment of the anthology series starring Ella Beatty as the accused murderer. Creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan premiered the eight-episode season.
- Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were found hacked to death with an axe in their Fall River, Massachusetts home on August 4, 1892. Lizzie Borden was tried for the crimes in 1893 but acquitted, leaving the case officially unsolved.
- The series incorporates fictional elements including a vintage Veedee vibrator and a subplot featuring 16th-century noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory. It depicts a romantic affair between Lizzie and maid Bridget Sullivan, despite no historical evidence supporting such a relationship.
- This season marks the Monster anthology's first female-focused installment, exploring female rage and repression in a patriarchal Victorian household. Beatty portrays Lizzie as motivated by a desire for freedom, shifting the franchise away from traditional serial killer profiles.
- More than 130 years after the 1892 murders, the Borden house operates as a bed and breakfast attracting 50,000 visitors annually. The series prioritizes thematic exploration over strict biographical adherence, ensuring the legend endures in American pop culture.
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Lizzie Borden was acquitted. So how did she become the world’s most famous axe murder
Her father and stepmother were hacked to death in Massachusetts in 1892; Borden was tried and acquitted, but suspicion endured, and Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series now offers its own answer to the mystery
The fourth season of "Monster" in Netflix portrays a passionate complicity and criminal conspiracy between the defendant and her servant. What the 1893 court records say, the social gaps, the myth of romance and the truth behind the bloody morning in Fall River.
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