The Trial of Lizzie Borden: The Making of a Monster (Trials of the Century)
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden: The Making of a Monster (Trials of the Century)
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Narrated by:
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Sandra Parsons
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By:
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Roland O'Leary
A Trial of the Century
Was Lizzie Borden Guilty of Murder?
In the dock: Lizzie Borden, accused of murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet.
In 1893, Lizzie Borden stood trial for the brutal murders of her father, Andrew, and stepmother, Abby, in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
There were no eyewitnesses, no confession and no murder weapon that could conclusively be tied to the crime. Instead, the prosecution built its case from a disturbing collection of circumstances: Lizzie's conflicting accounts of her movements, an alleged attempt to buy poison shortly before the killings, and a dress she burned in the kitchen stove three days afterwards.
Was she a calculating murderer or an innocent woman condemned by suspicion?
This immersive, full-cast courtroom drama recreates one of America's most notorious murder trials, drawing on original trial transcripts and contemporary reporting.
Through the voices of prosecution, defence and witnesses, the proceedings reveal not only the mystery at the heart of the Borden murders, but the assumptions of Gilded Age America about class, respectability and what a woman was capable of doing.
The fourth standalone production in the Trials of the Century series.
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