• SERIAL KILLER: Mary Ann Cotton The Black Widow

  • Dec 28 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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SERIAL KILLER: Mary Ann Cotton The Black Widow

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  • Mary Ann Cotton was convicted and hanged for murdering her stepson Charles Edward Contton by way of arsenic but she may have murdered as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children mostly to collect insurance policies.

    This episode we’ll be discussing what took her from “a girl of innocent disposition and average intelligence” to one of the most notorious murderers of the 19th Century.

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