184: The Poisoner Katie Stricklin

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, Sundays in Savannah, Tennessee were for two things: church and family. That was especially true for the Stricklin family. One Sunday, 66-year-old Mollie and her husband, 81-year-old William, invited their son and his wife to their new home for a midday meal. Mollie made the food. Her daughter-in-law served the tea. Afterward, they all went for a nice drive in the city. The get-together seemed fun and innocent—until Mollie and William became terribly ill. Days later, William died. Mollie barely recovered. When evidence revealed that the Savannah couple had been poisoned with arsenic, questions started to arise. Little did they know that William’s death was only the beginning of a case that would change the Stricklin family’s lives forever.

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0:00.0	Southern Fra true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there
0:06.7	may also be some explicit language used.
0:10.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.9	In the early 1800s, Britain caught their most prolific female serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton.
0:23.4	Mary was a nurse and housekeeper, who over the course of almost two decades allegedly poisoned
0:29.1	up to 21 people with arsenic.
0:32.2	Many of her victims were thought to be her own husbands and children.
0:36.7	For most of Mary's victims, she was able to collect a large insurance payout.
0:42.8	She was only arrested and charged in 1872 when she suddenly suggested to a local official
0:49.0	that her seven-year-old stepson, Charles Edward Cotton, was not long for this world.
0:55.0	In Charles subsequently died of a mysterious illness, the local official notified the
1:00.2	police.
1:01.8	An autopsy revealed that Charles had been poisoned with arsenic.
1:06.2	As a result, Mary Ann Cotton was executed on May 24, 1873.
1:11.4	She was around 40 years old.
1:14.2	The same year Mary was executed, another female serial killer was born.
1:18.9	This time in the United States, Amy Dugan, Archer Gilligan of Milton, Connecticut.
1:25.0	In Amy's adult years, she ran a nursing home.
1:28.6	That nursing home turned out to be the perfect killing grounds for as many as 48 people.
1:34.2	Amy was caught when detectives became suspicious of at the large amounts of arsenic she was
1:38.4	buying.
1:39.4	But prosecutors were only able to charge her with five murders.
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