108 - Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 132 minutes

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During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home; each dealt multiple and savage blows to their heads with a hatchet. Were they killed by Andrew's strange, thirty-two year-old daughter? A lot of evidence points to her being the killer. But, she was acquitted. I for one, think Lizzie was probably guilty. But will you? Make your own decision after listening to today's Timesuck? Timesuck is brought to you by the The Jim Jefferies Show podcast. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! Timesuck is also brought to you by The Great Courses Plus! Get a special FREE Month of Unlimited Access when you sign up at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK Timesuck is also brought to you by Simple Contacts! Go to simplecontacts.com/TIMESUCK20 or enter code TIMESUCK20 at checkout to get $20 off your contacts! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Lizzie Borden took in Acts gave her mother 40 Wax when she saw what she had done. She gave her father 41.
0:07.3	You heard that little diddy?
0:08.7	It's been around a long, long time.
0:10.4	It's McCobbs school yard rhyme and continual media coverage, including numerous books and films,
0:14.9	have kept the memory of a Massachusetts double homicide alive in the public's imagination for well over a century now.
0:21.8	During an oppressive heatwave in August 1892, prominent fall river residents Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home.
0:29.3	Each dealt multiple and savage blows to their heads with a hatchet.
0:33.2	The only serious suspect was Andrews 32-year-old unmarried daughter Lizzie, who was at the house during the killings.
0:40.5	His other daughter Emma, who also lived at home, was out of town and their living-made,
0:44.1	Bridget Sullivan was in her third floor room resting from a morning of window washing and vomiting,
0:49.7	following the consumption of possibly spoiled mutton stew that may have been behind the whole family having been sick for days prior to the killings.
0:57.2	A prim-proper church-going woman and a nice well-to-do fall river Massachusetts neighborhood,
1:01.7	brutally killing two members of her own family with a hatchet, was unthinkable.
1:06.1	And the case received widespread and constant newspaper coverage when Lizzie was charged with the murders and went to trial.
1:12.7	And then Lizzie was found not guilty by the jury, but the majority of residents in fall river Massachusetts seemed to disagree with the verdict and she was shunned by most of the town for the rest of her days.
1:23.3	When you look at the evidence, it does seem like she almost had to have done it, but did she?
1:27.8	And whether she did or didn't do it, why did she spend the rest of her life living in fall river?
1:32.2	Where everyone assumed she was guilty.
1:34.2	This only added to the public's fascination with her.
1:37.0	And since the crime remains officially unsolved, interest has never gone away.
1:41.4	There are all kinds of theories as to why she may have committed the murders.
1:44.6	She wanted her father's inheritance. She was sick of living under a domineering father's thumb.
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