Lizzie Borden, LLC

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all know the story: Lizzie Borden may or may not have taken an ax (okay, a hatchet) and given her mother (okay, stepmother) forty whacks (okay, nineteen). We know for sure that there were two deaths, and a lot of blood. But something sprung to life the day of those brutal double murders: the Lizzie Borden industry. For the very special tenth episode of Criminal Broads, let’s dive into the wild and endlessly enduring legend of alleged ax murderess Lizzie Borden, tackling her not as a killer, but as a cultural touchstone. We’ll cover the crimes themselves, but also the myths, misinformation, and weird products that have sprung up around the Lizzie Borden biz. Today, you can buy a pair of Lizzie Borden earrings, watch a Lizzie Borden rock opera, see a couple of Lizzie Borden-themed horror movies, go to a Lizzie Borden ballet, buy a Lizzie Borden Candle, drink a Lizzie Borden Cocktail, and stay at the Lizzie Borden B&B—but the one thing you can never, ever do is know exactly what Lizzie Borden was thinking on August 4, 1892. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a skin? A crime? Loving you dear life I do. Is this a swine?
0:17.0	Is this a swine, then I'm guilty, guilty of loving you.
0:31.2	Hi and welcome to the 10th episode of Criminal Broads, the podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.
0:38.0	Ten episodes! 10 episodes! I feel very celebratory about this fact and I hope this episode shows
0:44.5	that I've tried to make this one extra special by tackling a very famous crime
0:48.8	from an angle that is I hope fairly unique and by bringing in some cool clips and experts etc.
0:57.0	Also listeners um thank you thank you thank you for listening to this podcast.
1:03.5	Every time someone sends me a message on Instagram
1:05.5	or comes up to me at an event and says
1:08.0	that they listen to the podcast,
1:09.4	it just makes my day and it makes me feel so honored. And I think that the word honored is overused but that's
1:17.6	exactly how it feels it's an honor to have you take some time out of your day to
1:21.5	hear these stories and I hope it is a pleasure for you and entertaining and I always say this but get in touch anytime criminal broads at gmail
1:30.0	com criminal broads on Instagram if you have feedback or want me to cover anyone or whatever.
1:35.7	So enough of this shop talk.
1:37.6	Let's get to the Criminal Broad of the day, right?
1:39.6	This is a woman whose face has launched 100 Etsie products and almost as many movies, but who
1:46.2	remains to this day very, very unknowable. available. Let me pitch you the premise to a really good story. It's 1892, okay? And Victorian
2:18.6	women are suffocating in their heavy clothes, but they're also flirting and guzzling champagne
2:24.0	because it's the naughty 90s or the gay 90s or even the nifty 90s as Walt
2:30.4	Disney would later call it. In a lovely industry-filled town in Massachusetts,
2:36.0	the rich are getting richer,
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