Netflix’s true-crime anthology series Monster has returned with a new season centered on Lizzie Borden, the New England woman infamous for the 1892 ax murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. But viewers have been surprised to see another notorious figure appear in the storyline: Aileen Wuornos, the American serial killer executed in 2002 who became widely known after the 2003 film Monster starring Charlize Theron.
In the show, Wuornos is depicted as someone who knows Borden’s story intimately, even visiting her former home and forming what looks like an emotional bond with her memory. It’s a striking narrative choice, especially given that the two women’s cases are separated by almost a hundred years.
Here’s the catch: there’s no historical evidence that Aileen Wuornos ever knew about, admired, or was influenced by Lizzie Borden’s case. According to reporting on the series, this crossover is entirely a creative decision made by showrunners Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the team behind previous Monster installments about killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers.
Their goal, it seems, is to use the fictional link between Borden and Wuornos to examine how society has viewed and judged violence committed by women across very different eras—from Victorian-era New England to late-20th-century Florida.
Curious how the series weaves these two true-crime legends together? Check out the full original article for more details.
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