Maddy Pelling
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6,688 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's so interesting in this initial moment of the arrest?
is that opinion about whether or not Lizzie did it is absolutely split.
It splits the city into two camps.
On the one hand, we've got people who think she did it.
And interestingly, most of the people who fall into that camp
are factory workers, are people in the lower and working classes who see her and her father and everything that she stands for as their natural enemy.
And on the other hand, we've got the people who believe that she's innocent.
And among those are the church groups that her and her sister were part of.
And interestingly, suffragist societies, societies for the advancement and equality of women, rally to support her.
And so by the time it gets to trial, the case is already this notorious thing, but we're really no closer to knowing whether or not she did it.
And it's that ambiguity that people cannot get enough of.
By the first day of Lizzie Borden's trial for murder, interest in the case was booming.
Newspaper presses ran hot with copy reporting on events and speculating not only on motive, but on the outcome of the courtroom, and crowds, notable for the high numbers of women among them, flocked to see the drama unfold.
The Daily Herald, june ninth, eighteen ninety three.
The Washington Bee june tenth.
The case against Lizzie was compelling, especially when a neighbour, the same that had caught her ripping and burning her dress,
swore before the jury that Lizzie had said to her the day before the murders that she would soon be going on vacation, and felt that something is hanging over me.
I cannot tell what it is.
And yet, opinion over Lizzie's guilt was divided.
In one remarkable and callous moment of the trial, the skulls of Andrew and Abby Border now stripped of their flesh and used as evidence were brought into the courtroom.
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