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The famous 'Lizzie Borden took an axe' rhyme claims 40 and 41 blows. The real 1892 autopsy record says otherwise — and the rhyme itself started out with different numbers entirely.
Vicky Krieps plays both Bridget Sullivan and Elizabeth Báthory in Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Here's who Báthory really was, what's legend versus documented history, and why there's no actual link to Lizzie Borden.
Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story connects Lizzie Borden to Aileen Wuornos nearly a century later. Netflix's own material says there's no evidence the real Wuornos was fixated on the Borden case — here's what is true.
Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story has actress Nance O'Neil coaching Lizzie through her murder trial. In reality, they didn't meet until 1904 — over a decade later. Here's the real timeline.
Vicky Krieps plays Bridget 'Maggie' Sullivan in Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Here's who the real Bridget Sullivan was, why she was called Maggie, and what's actually documented about her life.
Lizzie Borden was tried for the 1892 murders of her father and stepmother and acquitted in June 1893. Here's what evidence was excluded, what the defense argued, and what acquittal actually means.
A chronology-first look at the real 1892 axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts — the crime scene, the evidence, and what remains unknown more than 130 years later.