35. Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
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10/25/23 • 60 min
In 1892, in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, a wealthy older couple was axed to death in their own home in broad daylight. Almost immediately their thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, is suspected of the brutal murders. The tales surrounding this event are varied, and conspiracy theories abound. The whole gruesome crime is memorialized in books, TV, movies, songs, poems, and now podcasts.
Introduction Narration: Lily Hildreth and Isrianna Delatorre
Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Sources:
Lincoln, Victoria. 1967. A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/430672060/
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/borden-lizzie.htm
https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1437-home
Lizzie Borden Poem by A. L. Bixby
hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC
In 1892, in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, a wealthy older couple was axed to death in their own home in broad daylight. Almost immediately their thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, is suspected of the brutal murders. The tales surrounding this event are varied, and conspiracy theories abound. The whole gruesome crime is memorialized in books, TV, movies, songs, poems, and now podcasts.
Introduction Narration: Lily Hildreth and Isrianna Delatorre
Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Sources:
Lincoln, Victoria. 1967. A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/430672060/
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/borden-lizzie.htm
https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1437-home
Lizzie Borden Poem by A. L. Bixby
hardtimesandtruecrimes.com buymeacoffee.com/hardtimesTC
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Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Sources:
Wood, Lana. Little Sister: My Investigation Into The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood . Dey Street Books, 2021.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/natalie-wood-death-new-audio-recordings_n_1885593
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Wood#:~:text=She%20had%20been%20on%20a,how%20she%20entered%20the%20water
https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/natalie-woods-sister-says-robert-wagner-killed-the-actress/
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a32420871/natalie-wood-death-true-story-timeline/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/718248234/?terms=natalie%20wood&match=1
https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalie-wood-death
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