Episodes

  • Join AI investigative analyst Raven Thorne for Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story

    Join AI investigative analyst Raven Thorne for Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story
    Oct 27 2025
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    1 min
  • Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story - Maplecroft - Life After Acquittal and Enduring Mystery

    Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story - Maplecroft - Life After Acquittal and Enduring Mystery
    Oct 27 2025
    Episode three follows Lizzie's life after acquittal. Despite her legal victory, Fall River society ostracized her completely. She and Emma purchased the mansion Maplecroft with their inheritance, finally living in comfort. However, in nineteen hundred five, Emma mysteriously abandoned Lizzie forever, never speaking to her again. Lizzie lived alone until her death in nineteen twenty-seven, wealthy but isolated. We analyze the evidence systematically: the strong circumstantial case for guilt including motive, opportunity, and suspicious behavior versus problems like missing blood evidence. Most modern historians believe Lizzie was guilty, though reasonable doubt existed. The case's cultural legacy endures through books, films, and folklore, teaching lessons about justice, gender prejudice, and the limitations of circumstantial evidence in this unsolved American mystery.
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    43 mins
  • Kill - The Trial of Lizzie Borden - Justice in New Bedford

    Kill - The Trial of Lizzie Borden - Justice in New Bedford
    Oct 27 2025
    Episode Two: The Trial - Justice in New Bedford Episode two examines Lizzie's trial in June eighteen ninety-three, which became a national sensation. The prosecution built a strong circumstantial case showing motive, opportunity, and suspicious behavior. However, devastating judicial rulings excluded Lizzie's attempted poison purchase and her contradictory inquest testimony. The defense, led by former Massachusetts Governor George Robinson, exploited Victorian gender prejudices, arguing a respectable woman couldn't commit such savage violence. They presented character witnesses and avoided putting Lizzie on the stand. After closing arguments emphasizing reasonable doubt over evidence, the all-male jury deliberated only sixty-six minutes before acquitting Lizzie on all counts, reflecting society's inability to imagine female brutality rather than objective evidence evaluation.
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    40 mins
  • Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story - 40 Whacks - The Murders at 92 Second Street

    Kill - The Lizzie Borden Story - 40 Whacks - The Murders at 92 Second Street
    Oct 27 2025
    Episode One: Forty Whacks - The Murders at 92 Second Street Episode one examines the brutal double homicide of August fourth, eighteen ninety-two. We explore the dysfunctional Borden household: wealthy but miserly Andrew Borden, his resented second wife Abby, and daughters Lizzie and Emma living in bitter tension. On a sweltering summer morning, Abby was struck nineteen times with a hatchet while making a bed. Ninety minutes later, Andrew was murdered on his sitting room sofa, his face destroyed by eleven blows. Only four people had access to the locked house. Maid Bridget Sullivan and Uncle John Morse had solid alibis. Lizzie's contradictory statements, calm demeanor, and suspicious behavior immediately drew police scrutiny, leading to her arrest one week later.
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    48 mins