The fourth season of Netflix ’s Monster anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan has found its star. Ella Beatty ( Feud: Capote vs. the Swans) will play Lizzie Borden in the series, which will recount the sensational allegations that Borden killed her father and stepmother with an axe. She was acquitted at trial.

Lizzie Borden lived in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. In 1892, she was accused of murdering both her father and her stepmother with an axe at their shared home. Borden was eventually acquitted of the crimes, but the brutal nature of the murders attracted nationwide attention and contributed to Borden’s place in popular culture.

Borden was accused but acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in 1892 Ella Beatty has been cast as Lizzie Borden on Monsters season 4 Additional castings include Rebecca Hall as Lizzie's stepmother,