Lizzie Borden took an ax, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Producers liked this quite a bit, Many versions were greenlit One was truthful, others less so, And now Netflix has a new show. Ryan Murphy’s new season of Monster will focus on the infamous Lizzie Borden case from 1892. The season, releasing Thursday on Netflix, is at least the fourth retelling of the case in narrative format, with the story also being covered many times over by documentaries, series and podcasts. It’s no wonder this case continues to fascinate nearly a century and half later. It reads like the most…
