This episode goes into detail on the timeline and trial of the borden family murders, and some reasons on why the younger daughter, Lizzie, was never found guilty of these infamous crimes. 

To this day it is unknown who truly did commit these murders, however there is a numerous amount of speculation on who would have wanted to and why they were committed. This case was immediately swarmed by media and newspaper coverage in the late 1800's and that itself fed into a large pool of speculation.