Her husbands and many of their children died under suspicious circumstances.
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History is filled with people remembered for great things. For building things, changing the world, for being heroes. However, history also remembers those who have done wrong. Those like Mary Ann Cotton, whose life and actions are remembered owing…
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Britain’s first serial killer ended her 20-year poisoning spree in 1873, thrashing around at the end of a hangman’s rope in Durham Jail.
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ITV drama Dark Angel is set to uncover the truth behind one of the most intriguing cases the UK has ever seen
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Mary Ann Cotton was an English murderer, convicted and hanged for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. She may have had as many as 21 victims, including eleven of her thirteen children
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In 1872 Mary Ann Cotton was found guilty of the murder of her stepson, by poisoning him with arsenic - the Victorian murderer's poison of choice.
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She was Britain's first serial killer and was finally incarcerated before eventually being executed at Durham Jail in March 1873.
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How did England’s first female serial killer manage to poison three husbands and 11 children before being caught?
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