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Our American Stories

Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With Murder?

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, the brutal double-murder that happened in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892 has long been considered an unsolved mystery. Cara Robertson, author of the The Trial Of Lizzie Borden, tells the story.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen if there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.6

No. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and you are listening to our

0:49.8

Halloween special, all show long.

0:52.7

We love doing these special shows, be it Memorial Day,

0:55.8

or Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or so many of the others we do. And today, we have a murder

1:01.5

mystery story for you. Cara Robertson, author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden, will be sharing

1:07.6

with us the story from her book. This long-unsold double murder has haunted Fall River, Massachusetts, since late summer of

1:16.5

1892.

1:18.3

Here's Cara with the story.

1:22.9

You know, we're used to the idea of these trials that become big media events.

1:28.3

But Lucy Borden's trial was to use an off-use phrase, the trial of the century.

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