Mary Ann Cotton became one of Victorian Britain’s most infamous accused poisoners after repeated deaths followed her from ...
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THE baby was the daughter born to Mary Ann Cotton, of West Auckland, in Durham jail on January 7, 1873. We told the story in Memories 96, with, as ever, a few inaccuracies. An army of readers – many ...
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of ...