History's Mysteries: The Strange Case of Lizzie Borden on AllMovie

The childhood limerick comes to startling life in this revealing documentary that takes a closer look at the case that sent a small Massachusetts town into shock before making the history books as one of the most chilling unsolved crimes ever committed. It was no secret that thirty-two-year-old Lizzie Borden despised her step-mother and resented her miserly father, but was her anger truly powerful enough to drive her to commit such an atrocious and brutal crime? Borden's story is without question one of most distinctive in all the annals of crime, and though she was eventually acquitted of the double homicide in court, she would forever be condemned socially by the suspicions of her fellow townspeople. In this release, investigators speak with the people who know the facts of the crime best, including the town curator and the legal historians, to paint a vivid and chilling portrait of the murders that would still chill true crime buffs over a century later.