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Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden in “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.”Credit: Netflix

This article discusses the full season of Netflix’sMonster: The Lizzie Borden Story

Well over a centuryafterLizzie Bordenwas acquitted of the 1892 murders of parentsAndrew BordenandAbby Borden, theMonster: The Lizzie Borden Storyactress—who plays her older sisterEmma Borden—shared a message to the eldest Borden girl.

In a true Ryan Murphy curveball, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story not only features Borden but one of history’s most infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos.

All eight episodes of Netflix’s “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” are now streaming, with Ella Beatty portraying the Fall River spinster accused of killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet.

More than 130 years after Lizzie Borden was acquitted of killing her father and stepmother, their deaths remain one of the most famous unsolved crimes in U.S. history. Now Netflix is offering its own version of what happened.

More than 130 years after Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home, people are still asking the same question: Did Lizzie Borden really do it?

‘Full of great performances’ … Ella Beatty in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Photograph: Netflix‘Full of great performances’ … Ella Beatty in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Photograph: Netflix Review

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A jury in Massachusetts once looked at a woman accused of splitting her father’s and stepmother’s skulls with a hatchet and decided she had done no such thing. Lizzie Borden walked out of the New Bedford courthouse a free woman. The country has spent every decade since refusing to take yes for an answer, keeping…