Mary Ann Cotton: Black Widow or insanely bad luck
She went through 4 husbands, numerous children and stepchildren, benefiting from many of their deaths. Was she a cold blooded killer for profit, or a woman with poor luck, who loved a little too freely for 19th century England? Shout to sources used The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, by Judith Flanders. Historyhit.com, and Allthatisinteresting.com.
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She went through 4 husbands, numerous children and stepchildren, benefiting from many of their deaths. Was she a cold blooded killer for profit, or a woman with poor luck, who loved a little too freely for 19th century England? Shout to sources used The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, by Judith Flanders. Historyhit.com, and Allthatisinteresting.com....