The True Story Behind Netflix's Monster: Why Lizzie Borden Walked Free

The true story behind Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, told from the trial record. The Lizzie Borden story from start to finish: on August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed inside their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, and ten months later a jury set Lizzie Borden free after a little over an hour. This Lizzie Borden documentary covers Andrew Borden, Abby Borden, Emma Borden, the maid Bridget Sullivan, John Morse, Alice Russell, the barn alibi, the burned dress, the missing note and the 1893 trial in New Bedford. The skipping rhyme says she did it. A jury said she didn't. But that jury never heard two pieces of evidence: Lizzie's own changing story under oath, and the poison she was said to have tried to buy the day before. This historical true crime documentary follows the whole Lizzie Borden case: 92 Second Street, Fall River's cotton mills, the Union Savings Bank, Lizzie's stepmother Abby Durfee Gray, the Ferry Street house, the July quarrel, the household sickness and Dr. Bowen, the hottest day of the summer, the guest room, the jammed front door, the laugh at the top of the stairs, the note from a sick friend, the barn loft and the fishing sinkers, Assistant Marshal John Fleet, "she is not my mother", City Marshal Rufus Hilliard, the hatchet head in the cellar, the $5,000 reward, the slop pail and the sink, the mayor's visit, the dress in the stove, the inquest and the morphine, Taunton jail, Judge Blaisdell, the grand jury, Hosea Knowlton, William Moody, Governor George Robinson, Judge Justin Dewey, Bertha Manchester, Hyman Lubinsky the ice cream seller, Eli Bence and the prussic acid, the verdict, Maplecroft, Lizbeth Borden, Nance O'Neil, Oak Grove Cemetery, the other suspects and the Lizzie Borden House today. CHAPTERS 0:00 Lizzie Borden: Thursday, August 4, 1892 1:18 Andrew Borden, the richest man on Second Street 2:49 A house divided: Lizzie, Emma and Abby 4:19 The sick house and John Morse 5:12 Thursday morning at 92 Second Street 7:25 Lizzie's barn alibi 8:44 The police and the missing note 10:48 The dress in the stove 12:07 Lizzie's inquest testimony 13:28 The Lizzie Borden trial 15:28 Exhibit A: what the jury never heard 16:11 Exhibit B: the prussic acid 17:33 The verdict 18:35 Lizbeth of Maplecroft 19:47 The other suspects 21:30 Guilty or not guilty? The ledger The police could not prove the weapon. The jury could not hear her own words. More than 130 years could not settle it. And the house where it happened still takes overnight guests. This documentary is built on the trial record as published in 1893, the newspapers of the time and historians' accounts. Every Crime Ledger episode is the whole story of one infamous case, with myths told as myths and no gore. SOURCES Porter, Edwin H. (1893). The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Fall River: Geo. R. H. Buffinton. Public domain (Project Gutenberg 57939). Quotes the inquest, the preliminary hearing and the trial. Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Lizzie A. Borden, Superior Court, New Bedford, 5-20 June 1893 (testimony as reported by Porter). Wikipedia, "Lizzie Borden" and "Lizzie Borden House", and the sources they cite. PICTURES (all public domain unless noted) Edwin H. Porter, The Fall River Tragedy (1893): portraits, the house plans and the courthouse drawings City of Fall River, 1877, O. H. Bailey & Co. (Library of Congress) Fall-River, Mass., about 1870 (Library of Congress) Weave room, Cornell Mill, Fall River, 1912, Lewis Hine (Library of Congress) The Borden murder trial, 1893, B. West Clinedinst (Library of Congress) The trial jury, 1893, O'Neil, New Bedford Lizzie Borden portraits, 1889-1892; the Borden house, 1892 The Borden house in 2008 (DkEgy, public domain); Andrew and Abby Borden's bedroom, 2006 (Artemisboy, public domain) Graves of Emma and Lizzie Borden, Oak Grove Cemetery (Interstellarity, CC0) MUSIC "Aftermath" and "Stay the Course" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Crime Ledger: the whole story of history's most infamous crimes. Subscribe:    / @crimeledgerhistory   #LizzieBorden #TrueCrime #HistoricalTrueCrime #FallRiver #CrimeDocumentary #UnsolvedMysteries #CrimeLedger