Maddy Pelling

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6,688 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · America's 'Innocent Axe-Murderer' Lizzie Borden · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

And this is really interesting.

So Grover Cleveland comes back into office for a second term, but they're not backed about terms, and he's the only president thus far to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Of course, Donald Trump would be the second if he is elected later this year.

There's a lot of parallels to our own time, it's a feeling of in the eighteen nineties lots of change is happening, the recognizable twentieth century is about to come into being, and this is the setting in which we find Lizzie Borden on trial for a series of very brutal murders.

Sure.

So we're in Fall River, Massachusetts, which is an East Coast city in Bristol County.

It's a really wealthy place, it's very prosperous, and there's a lot of opportunity here for social mobility, which is gonna be important to our story.

I was just reading about the

Full River in the nineteenth century.

And something I came across now, I love a weird archaeological discovery and

It was famous in the time that Lizzie Borden was living there.

This this city was famous for a discovery that had actually happened several decades earlier in the eighteen thirties, of a skeleton that was found on the riverbank there.

Dressed in armour, it's buried with metal objects, some tree bark, and some clothing that it's wearing and that's separate.

And nobody could work out if this was the burial of a Native American or possibly an early colonist, it seemed to be already centuries old.

And it sort of became the thing that the town was known for, which is just a lovely little detail.

And um maybe that's a whole episode in and of itself.

But certainly by the eighteen nineties, it is also really a center for industry.

So we've got print works, we've got, as we said, textile factories, we've also got ironworks.

The shipping, uh the river comes in there, so we've got we've got shipping, transporting coal, transporting cotton.

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