More than a century after two people were killed with an axe in a Fall River, Massachusetts household, the question of who Lizzie Borden truly was remains more alive than the question of what she did. Netflix's new documentary series and a journalist's night spent in the preserved murder room arrive together as an invitation to reconsider how history shapes its villains — particularly its women. The case endures not because it was solved, but because it was not, and because the silence at its center has always been filled by the assumptions of the age.
Inside the Borden Murder House: A Journalist's Night in History's Most Infamous Room
Two people were murdered with an axe in the Borden household in 1892.
Crime & Justice