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Mary Ann Cotton: The West Auckland Borgia (Paperback)
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Mary Ann Cotton: The West Auckland Borgia (Paperback)
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List price R474
Loot Price R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
You Save R86 (18%)
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A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over
twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her
step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in
County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they
are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as
well. The perpetrator, Mary Ann Cotton, was tried and found guilty
and later hanged on 24 March 1873 in Durham Goal. It is claimed she
murdered over twenty people and was the first female serial killer
in England. With location photographs and a blow by blow account of
the trial, this book challenges the claim that Mary Ann Cotton was
the 'The West Auckland Borgia', a title given to her at the time.
It sets out her life, trial, death and the aftermath and also
questions the legal system used to convict her by looking at
contemporary evidence from the time and offering another
explanation for the deaths. The book also covers the lives of those
left behind, including the daughter born to Mary Ann Cotton in
Durham Goal.
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