Lizzie Borden and the House on Second Street
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories...
"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."
The kids jump-rope rhyme got almost everything wrong. It was not an axe, it was not her mother, and the forty whacks were made up to fit the beat. Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893. Nobody else was ever charged. More than 130 years later, the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still unsolved, a case that went cold because 1892 had no tools to close it.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the 4th Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan Monster season, premiered on Netflix on September 17, 2026, and does what that series did with Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein... it fills the blank morning with plot and calls it the story. This episode does not. We walk the house on Second Street, mark the rumor when we meet it, and leave the verdict where the jury left it.
Thank you for being here. If this one kept you company, the next one will be waiting in the shadows.
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