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Mary Ann Cotton: 'She's Dead and She's Rotten'
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Mary Ann Cotton was convicted of, and hanged for, the lethal poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. But it's likely that she murdered as many as 21 people, including three of her four husbands and 11 children, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. Local children would recite this disturbing nursery rhyme about her, “Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing? Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string. Where, where? Up in the air, sellin’ black puddings a penny a pair.”
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Released:
Dec 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
La Voisin: Poisoner-for-Hire and Provider of Alleged Sorcery: Catherine Monvoisin, known as "La Voisin," was known as the local fortune teller, and was a commissioned poisoner who was accused of witchcraft and heresy. by Criminalia