Lizzie Borden's Real Relationship With Her Maid, Bridget Sullivan, Explained

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story paints Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan as secret lovers who collude to murder Lizzie’s parents, raising questions about the veracity of the claim. Monster is back with another season, this time taking on the Lizzie Borden story. This is the first time a woman is the “monster” and accused killer in question. Borden’s story is so infamous that it has become a children’s rhyme used in hand claps and jump rope. “Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”