Spoiler warning: The finale uses Aileen Wuornos and Lizzie Borden to connect different eras and explore how stories about violent women are remembered.
Why Aileen appears
Aileen Wuornos is used as a thematic counterpart to Lizzie. The creators also connect Elizabeth Bathory, Lizzie and Aileen across historical periods.
Is it historical?
No documented real-life relationship between Wuornos and Borden has been established. The connection is a creative device.
What Brennan says
Ian Brennan has described the three-woman structure as a way to move across time and explore broader themes around female rage and repression.
Sources: TheWrap; The Hollywood Reporter
Fact-check note
This article distinguishes the Netflix dramatization from documented history. Lizzie Borden was acquitted in 1893; claims about guilt, private relationships, motives and events not established by surviving records are described as fictionalized or disputed rather than settled fact.
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