One of the most infamous murders in American history, the brutal slaying of Andrew and Abby Borden. But what really happened?
Show Notes
In part one of our two part feature on Lizzie Borden we look at the Borden family and their lives leading up to that fateful day in August of 1892, where someone picked up a hatchet and killed the elder Borden’s. Was it Lizzie? Or has she stood wrongly accused all these years?
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