mary ann cotton} the black widow killer
Mary Ann Cotton; The First British Serial Killer “ Lord Jesus receive my spirit, Oh Lord have mercy upon me” said Mary Ann Cotton moments before prison executioner Robert Anderson released his grip on the rope that left Cotton defeated, and dangling on the noose. March 24th, 1873 when the “Black Widow Killer” had been charged the death sentanc for murdering her seven-year old stepson, Charles Edward Cotton with a fatal dose of arsenic. It is undeniable that Mary Ann Cotton was a wretched and sickeningly wrong woman for what she’s accused of, but It should be known as well much of her story is not known. Between the years of 1865 and 1872 it is publicly believed to be the time period she committed her murders: 21 victims. Mary had 13 children of her own, but only two of those children survived to meet their adulthood. Margeret Edith, her youngest daughter she gave birth to during her trial and her son George Cotton, from a separate marriage where she lost custody of t...