Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English serial killer, convicted of, and hanged for, the murder by poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. It is likely that she murdered three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies, and many others. She may have murdered as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children. She chiefly used arsenic poisoning, causing gastric pain and rapid decline of health.
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Mary Ann Robson 31 October 1832 Low Moorsley, County Durham, England
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24 March 1873 (aged 40) West Auckland is a village in County Durham, in North East England
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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