Maggie Sullivan

There are women in New York who would eat you up alive.

There's La Frageda, alias Maggie Sullivan from Milwaukee, over there devouring you with her eyes at this moment, and that pretty little Stuyvesant Blaine debutante hasn't taken her eyes off you for long enough to eat her spiced ice.

I know them both and could land something from either one if I introduced you in your title and your very beautiful clothes.

Oh, I beg a pardon of you that I have not time to have an introduction to your friends.

Nora, meanwhile, is played by Linda Boyd, and we know her.

167 credits, including Sullivan's Crossing as Phoebe, Maggie Sullivan's mother.

Yes, which I didn't realize that was her.

No, I didn't realize it either.

Abby was initially believed to be out of the house.

But roughly half an hour later, Bridget, otherwise known as Maggie, and neighbor Adelaide Churchill went upstairs looking for her and discovered her body in the guest room.

Medical evidence indicated that Abby had been dead considerably longer than Andrew, establishing that the two victims had been killed separately, roughly an hour or more apart.

The servant, Maggie, was not considered a subject because investigators were able to determine that she was outside when the first murder occurred.

There were eyewitnesses that confirmed that she wasn't in the house.

She was washing windows when the first murder of Abby occurred.

So let's discuss what was outright untrue in the show and what actually was true.

The show did get a couple of important details correct.

Um, so Ella, I think it's Beadie or Betty, plays Lizzie Borden, and she lives in, as a repressed, stifling life under the thumb of her harsh father, Andrew, which is Charlie Hunnam, and stepmother Abby, Rebecca Hall.

So the relationship is a provocative new live-in maid Bridget, Maggie Sullivan, joins the household and awakens Lizzie to a dark path of se- So again, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Murphy's work.

Um, I think he's great.

And I think, I think his shows, people think that they're, you know, exact facts, and they're dramatized.

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On the morning of August 4th, 1892, Andrew Borden left to conduct business, leaving behind Sarah, their live-in maid Bridget Sullivan, also known as Maggie, and Lizzie.

A few hours later, he returned from his business meeting and laid down on the couch to catch a short

nap.

Upstairs, his wife's body was found, even more brutally mutilated.

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According to one article, Lizzie reportedly called out to Bridget Sullivan, Maggie, come quick.

Father's dead.

Or way more terrifyingly, they never left the house at all.

Only two people were known to be at home during the killings, 32-year-old Lizzie Borden and the family's Irish servant, Bridget Maggie Sullivan.

Lizzie's alibi is that she'd been out in the barn eating pears during the time of the murders.

Okay, girl.

The maid Maggie said she was outside washing windows.

Investigators didn't locate any blood-soaked clothing, and they couldn't find a definitive murder weapon in a cellar that was full of axes and hatchets, and they couldn't find any outside witnesses who saw or heard anything.

Despite all of these unanswered questions, investigators soon started zooming in on Lizzie Borden.

The series weaves in 1892 Massachusetts with a bit of like a fantasy sequence of 16th century Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory, who legend has it, loved to bathe in virgin blood.