Mary Ann Cotton (born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham – died 24 March 1873) was an English woman convicted of murdering her children and believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.
Read more about Mary Ann Cotton: Early Life, Husband 1: William Mowbray, Husband 2: George Ward, Husband 3: James Robinson, "Husband" 4: Frederick Cotton, Two Lovers, Death of Charles Edward Cotton and Inquest, Arrest, Trial and Execution, Nursery Rhyme
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