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Oct 2023
40m 3s

Jeremiah Lexer & Lizzie Borden // 345

Dark West Productions
About this episode

In July of 1902, a wealthy Tennessee plantation owner went on a murderous rampage in the middle of the night, killing his entire family with an ax. But what they found at his home after his death was even more horrifying. Since the tragic slaying of six innocent people that night, and dozens of others over the years, the home has been turned into one of the scariest haunted houses in America: Frightmare Manor. This is the story of murderer Jeremiah Lexer. But 10 years earlier, an even more well-known ax murder case occurred just a few states away when a young woman is believed to have murdered her father and stepmother. So this is also the story of Lizzie Borden.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Frightmare Manor: https://frightmaremanor.com/history-jeremiah-lexer-plantation-crockett/

2. The Southern Voice: https://thesouthernvoice.com/evil-isnt-new-the-jeremiah-lexer-story/

3. The Knoxville News-Sentinel: https://www.newspapers.com/image/777973849/?terms=jeremiah%20lexer&match=1

4. Historic Archaeology: https://historicarchaeology.weebly.com/journal/small-town-cover-up-of-serial-killer-responsible-for-30plus-deaths

5. UT Daily Beacon: https://www.utdailybeacon.com/opinion/columns/east-tennessees-hidden-history-serial-killers-in-knoxville/article_70a8c42a-bfd6-11e7-ab64-5300d0bb2906.html#:~:text=The%20notorious%20Harpe%20Brothers%20are,in%201798%2C%20beginning%20in%20Knoxville.

6. WBIR: https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/five-at-four/haunted-house-frightmare-manor-specializes-in-screams-and-scares/51-c30cffa1-ae5f-4d8d-bc4d-2b45b730bc55

7. Serial Killer Calendar: https://serialkillercalendar.com/PAUL-REID-THE-FAST-FOOD-KILLER.php

8. Bizarrepedia: https://www.bizarrepedia.com/when-nashville-bled-paul-dennis-reid-jr/

9. JustThoughtLounge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfuBN0c_A4

10. Associated Press: https://bobbyrossjr.com/2003/04/27/april-2003-the-associated-press/

11. Casetext: https://casetext.com/case/state-v-reid-224







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