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Bookmark or Share- Mary Ann Cotton - WikipediaMary Ann Cotton (née Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson.
- Mary Ann Cotton, The First Serial Killer In British HistoryBetween 1865 and 1872, Mary Ann Cotton poisoned 21 people with arsenic, including three husbands, a lover, and 11 of her own children. When she was hanged in 1873, Cotton was accused of poisoning 21 people.
- Britain’s First Serial Killer: Who Was Mary Ann Cotton?Mary Ann Cotton, also known by the surnames Mowbray, Robinson and Ward, was a nurse and housekeeper suspected of poisoning as many as 21 people in 19th-century Britain. Mary was only ever convicted of one murder, the poisoning with arsenic of her 7-year-old stepson, Charles Edward Cotton.
- The Black Widow of Victorian England: Mary Ann Cotton’s Reign of ...Mary Ann Cotton shattered Victorian ideals of femininity and domesticity, using poisoning to turn household trust into a tool of betrayal. By employing arsenic, a common substance, she mimicked disease symptoms to murder husbands and children, committing calculated killings undetected.
- Mary Ann Cotton: Who was the real woman behind Dark Angel?Mary Ann Cotton, the subject of ITV's new historical drama Dark Angel, was a Victorian Sunday school teacher, a nurse, a wife and a mother. But she was also a...
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