True Crime of the Historical Kind Podcast

Long before the murders that made her a household name, Lizzie Borden lived in a world shaped by Victorian rules. The strict gender expectations, family duty, and an obsession with reputation. Fall River’s elite valued quiet conformity, and the Borden household embodied those values almost to a fault.

But under that stillness, resentments were simmering. Money, inheritance, a strained step-mother relationship, mysterious illnesses, and rumors of break-ins all chipped away at the peace of 92 Second Street.

What is True Crime of the Historical Kind Podcast?

Every Friday, True Crime of the Historical Kind returns to the scene of the crime...

We uncover the deeper story. The world that shaped the violence, and the humans that played a hand history's tragedies.

Because the past may be distant, but human nature rarely is.