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Why Lizzie Borden Was Found Not Guilty Despite Damning Evidence Against Her

Netflix’s Monster world has finally turned its attention to a woman after telling the stories of three infamous male k*llers.

The fourth season, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, arrived on Netflix on September 17, with Ella Beatty playing Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts woman accused of slaying her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892.

More than a century later, the case remains unresolved, and one question continues to fascinate people: if so much evidence seemed to point to Lizzie, why did a jury find her not guilty?

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