Now that Charlie Hunnam has terrorized Wisconsinites as Ed Gein in the Monster series’ third season, we’re looking ahead to the fourth outing of Ryan Murphy‘s highly controversial and binge-worthy series on Netflix. For Season 4, the man behind American Horror Story, Feud, and Scream Queens has set his sights on one of history’s most notorious figures: Lizzie Borden.
Borden made national headlines back in the late 1800s when she was accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe. Due to her gender and the sheer brutality of the crimes, the trial became a media spectacle, cementing Borden’s place in both history books and Halloween costumes.
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