India, Aug. 21 -- Netflix is bringing one of America's most infamous murder mysteries back into the spotlight with Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Monster anthology. The eight-episode series stars Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden and premieres on Netflix on September 17, 2026.

But there is one major question likely to follow viewers long after the credits roll: Did Lizzie Borden really kill her father and stepmother? The real-life Lizzie was accused of murdering Andrew and Abby Borden with a hatchet in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892. She was arrested, put on trial the following year and ultimately acquitted. More than 130 years later, the murders remain officially unsolved....