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EPISODE · Nov 1, 2025 · 31 MIN

Lizzie Borden: Eighty-One Whacks

from Splintered Minds: The Psychology of the Unthinkable · host Sebastian Gray

A quiet home. Two brutal murders. One daughter accused. More than a century later, the name Lizzie Borden still cuts deep. In this episode of Splintered Minds, we strip away the nursery rhyme and the myth to expose the psychology beneath the axe: power, repression, class, and the breaking point of a life lived under control.

A quiet home. Two brutal murders. One daughter accused. More than a century later, the name Lizzie Borden still cuts deep. In this episode of Splintered Minds, we strip away the nursery rhyme and the myth to expose the psychology beneath the axe: power, repression, class, and the breaking point of a life lived under control.

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