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Evidence Locker True Crime

109: Mary Ann Cotton, Victorian Poisoner | England

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mary Ann Cotton lost three husbands, eleven children, her mother, her best friend and her lover. She was left to raise her stepson alone and before long, the 8-year-old boy was dead too. A local shopkeeper raised his suspicions to the police and what they found was the shocking truth about what occurred behind closed doors at 20 Johnson Terrace, West Auckland, County Durham. Was this caring nurse Britain’s first female serial killer?
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0:45.6

parts are graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised. Each episode is produced with the utmost

0:51.7

respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

0:58.4

The walls of the house at 20 Johnson Terrace, West Auckland, and County Durham had seen the recent deaths of four people.

1:04.9

It was the house where Mary Ann Cotton sat by her husband Frederick's bedside

1:09.4

as his health deteriorated rapidly before his death in September 1871.

1:15.1

By March the next year, her stepson Frederick Jr. as well as her own baby Robert had also

1:20.0

perished.

1:21.6

She had taken in a lodger, a lover whom she had known for many years, Joe Natress. Before long, Joe became sick too.

1:30.0

Mary Ann was a trained nurse intended to him with the greatest of care and affection.

1:34.0

Neighbors came around every day and helped Mary Ann.

1:37.0

The poor woman had lost so much already.

1:40.0

Dr Richardson visited every day and diagnosed Joe's condition as typhoid fever.

1:46.1

This deadly disease caused the deaths of many people living in the impoverished mining villages

1:49.9

of England's Northumberland.

1:52.2

Joe knew he was probably going to die.

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