Quick answer: Recent reporting identifies several parts of Lizzie Borden's life that Monster does not fully explore.
- Lizzie's charitable and religious activities.
- Her European travel before the murders.
- An alleged attempt to purchase prussic acid, part of disputed case evidence.
- Family property tensions.
- A later shoplifting accusation that was not pursued.
- Her increasingly private final years before her 1927 death.
Source: PEOPLE
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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