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Martinis & Murder

Episode #79: The Borden Family Murders

Martinis & Murder

Oxygen

Oxygen Network, Documentary, Serial Killer, True Crime

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

John and Daryn discuss the strange case of the Borden Family murders, including the great debate regarding Lizzie Borden's involvement, or lack thereof.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 wax when she saw what she had done she gave her father

0:10.2

41

0:18.6

Hey guys that was like you had like copped your hands over the mic and like got a

0:23.4

Sultry with it. Well, you know, we've never done a cold open like that on the show before we haven't but I was so excited to do this

0:29.5

I mean, obviously people know what's Lizzie Borden now, but you know what we I feel like we have to hear this in Matt's creepy fucking voice

0:34.5

Absolutely Matt could you say the opener for us so that way we know it what it's like in your gross voice

0:42.3

Maybe modulated affected voice. Yes, and I'd like to do a

0:47.2

Hardcore rendition a hardcore rendition suddenly it's open mic night. Okay, let's say I

0:52.0

Born is he born to come axe gave her mother 40 wax when she saw what she had done gave her father 41

0:58.0

Yeah, we just need like Scott instruments, you know like trumpets and packs. Yeah, I don't even know what I'm doing

1:03.3

I mean, I mean I can't wait to hear what the sounds like with his affected voice

1:08.4

I don't even care if we're drinking this week because that was so perfect. That was enough. He can leave well

1:13.9

Yeah, we're gonna basically jump right into you've probably heard of this case before the Lizzie Borden one

1:21.0

There is actually a lot of rumors swirling about this

1:24.2

I've heard other

1:25.6

Stories and movies and everything about this. It's it's it's wildly fascinating and I think

1:30.5

Is this the oldest case we've ever done? I think so right not that definitely this is the oldest case

1:35.7

We've never hit into the 1800s before no definitely was made up to sell legend has that it was made up to sell newspapers in

1:42.3

1892 but it soon became popular as a kid's jump rope rhyme, which is what we kind of came up with here

1:47.8

Yeah, when I vaguely remember that from whenever I was in like elementary school, which is kind of hilarious

1:53.7

But yeah, we're going back to like how fucking dark for kids to be saying that you don't realize like how dark things are

1:59.0

And so you like parse out the lyrics and you're like oh my god my six-year-old was saying that like do you remember like the bloody Mary

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