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In honor of the 130th anniversary of Lizzie Borden Murder Day, August 4, 1892, we hacked through the archives to give you the first episode in our three part Lizzie Borden series. The story of Lizzie Borden as only we could tell it. You've heard it before, but never like this.
Like the story of The Donner Party, Lizzie Borden captured the American imagination and stole the headlines of the papers that shared the news of their times. It was one of the most covered criminal cases in American history.
At the end of last season, we told you the tale of discovering Hester Foster's true story, a woman who history had turned its back upon. Nothing had been written about her. Lizzie Borden, the woman at the heart of this episode, had entirely the opposite treatment. It seems too much has been written about her; TV shows, movies, books, chronicles and particularly fictional tales that have muddied and muddled her real story. And in many of them, she is often portrayed as a monster. Maybe she was. However, in the 1890s, in Fall River, Massachusetts, a white, upper-middle class, unmarried woman, forbidden to work for pay by family and society...had only two options to obtain financial security, freedom from sexual coercion and independence....She could either inherit it....or steal it.
And then there WAS, one could say...that third bloody option.
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S1E19 - The Season 1 Porch
S1E18 - Digging Up The Dead
S1E17 - Freaks - Johnny Eck
S1E16 - Phantom of Flatwoods
S1E15 - Ghost Train
S1E14 - The Crosswick Monster
S1E13 - Stigmata Minisode Update
S1E12 - Stigmata
S1E11 - Lady Wonder - Psychic Horse
S1E10 - A Place To Hide - The Seance
S1E9 - When Lincoln Could Fly
S1E8 - Bryn Du and the Estes Method
S1E7 - Austin Dam Mystery Man
S1E6 - Witness - Minorities And The UFO Phenomenon
S1E5 - Holiday Haunts - Christmas Ghost Stories
S1E4 - The Hinsdale House (Part 3)
S1E3 - The Hinsdale House (Part 2)
S1E2 - The Hinsdale House (Part 1)
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