Ep 24: Axe-executioners and Moor-ders: Lizzie Borden and The Moors Murders

Author: Farz Sokhansanj, Taylor Pineiro
Published: Mon 12 Jun 2023
Episode Link: https://doomed-to-fail.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-24-axe-ecutioners-and-moor-ders-lizzie-borden-and-the-moors-murders-TtM8i0Re

This week Farz goes back across the pond to tell the story of the murderous pairing of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. These two attacked and killed children across Manchester and buried them in the moors (which is British for super big field). A Neo-Nazi found his match in a girl who would do anything for him, takes one to know one. This is the story of the Moors Murders.

Then, Taylor tells the truly American tale of Lizzie Borden and her axe (maybe!?! We don’t know that she did it for sure and we will never know!). On a Tuesday morning on a busy street Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered with an axe before noon! Could it have been their daughter?

Everybody together!

Lizzie Borden took an axe

and gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done,

she gave her father forty-one.

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Photos of Lizzie & the Borden home via the public domain

Borden house via historicaltranscripts.com

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley via Wikipedia

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