Ryan Murphy’s true crime-based Netflix series Monster has previously profiled Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers. Season 3, which releases soon, will centre on Ed Gein. Now, Variety reports that the fourth season will focus on the infamous Lizzie Borden.

The news comes despite the fact that no official Season 4 renewal has been announced yet. Monster Season 3 also hasn’t yet set a premiere date.

Borden lived in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. In 1892, she was accused of mutilating and murdering both her father and her stepmother with an axe at their shared home. Borden was eventually acquitted of the crimes, but the brutal nature of the murders attracted nationwide attention and contributed to Borden’s infamy in popular culture.

The grisly murders also inspired a great many books, both studies and fiction; Fall River Legend (1948), a ballet by Agnes de Mille; an opera titled Lizzie Borden (1965), by Jack Beeson and Kenward Elmslie; and one catchy, if not wholly accurate, nursery rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe/ And gave her mother forty whacks;/ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one.” There were also a number of television and feature film adaptations of Lizzie’s story, including Lizzie Borden Took an Axe starring Christina Ricci, or the 2018 feature Lizzie starring Chloë Sevigny.

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