The Netflix series, starring Ella Beatty, depicts the alleged axe murderer as suffering from various ailments

Netflix viewers responded lukewarm to the latest addition in Ryan Murphy’s cinematic universe of infamous killers last week. Meanwhile, the streamer seems to have found the right audience for its latest YA offering.

The fourth installment of Monstruo revisits the unsolved crime that shocked the US in 1892 and turns some of the theories that have followed Borden for over a century into facts. Its most surprising license is linking her to Aileen Wuornos,

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The new season stars Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden, retelling her trial and acquittal following the notorious 1892 axe murders in Massachusetts. Despite the strong viewership numbers, the season has drawn mixed reviews.

Borden, who was famously acquitted of murder charges in the hatchet deaths of her father and stepmother in 1893, was living in relative seclusion in 1904 when she met Nance O'Neil, a theater and silent film actor who had performed all over the world.

Lizzie Borden is the subject of season 4 of Netflix’s ‘Monster’ anthology

By the way, the Bordens’ doctor prescribed her morphine to help her sleep. He claimed the drug affected her memories and made her confused. Later on, Lizzie Borden ‘s statements at the inquest were ruled inadmissible, so lawyers couldn’t use them in the trial.