This week we dive into the story of Mary Ann Cotton, whom criminologists have dubbed Britain’s First Female Serial Killer, and look at how this black widow got away with murdering an estimated 13 children, 3 husbands, and many others, with all their deaths being blamed on a variety of common Victorian diseases and ailments.
FURTHER READING:
Mary Ann Cotton
Dark Angel Miniseries
Mary Ann Cotton | Biography, Murders, Trial, & Execution
Dark Angel: How were Mary Ann Cotton’s terrible crimes uncovered?
Plymouth's forgotten serial killer who murdered her own children
Mary Ann Cotton and Arsenic Poisoning in the Victorian Era
Mary Ann Cotton - Poison - Arsenic - Aerial Killer - Mary Robson
The Most Evil Women in History by Shelley Klein
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119: The Chameleon Killer
118: Bear Brook & Forensic Genealogy
117: The Axeman of New Orleans
116: The Mad Bomber
115: La Voisin
114: The Pink Panthers
113: The Hollywood Blacklist
112: LISK (Part 2)
111: LISK (Part 1)
110: DB Cooper
109: The Lufthansa Heist
108: The Mysterious Death of Alfred Loewenstein
107: The Montauk Project
106: The Lost Cosmonauts
105: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
104: The Green Children of Woolpit
103: Inventing Anna
March Intermission
102: The Disappearance of Louis Le Prince
101: The Mysterious Death of George Reeves
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