Netflix’s New Monster Season Takes Major Liberties With the True Lizzie Borden Case

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Monster is a true-crime anthology show created for Netflix that, for the past three seasons, has covered infamous criminals like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, as well as Lyle and Erik Menendez. For its fourth season, Monster takes on one of the most widely-discussed cases in American history: Lizzie Borden's alleged murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, her father and stepmother. The case has remained a subject of public interest for generations, but Monster is once again polarizing audiences for its inaccuracies.