“Lady Rotten” Pt. 2 - Mary Ann Cotton

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

After suffering multiple miscarriages, she begins to see her children less as a blessing and more of a burden. Mary Ann Cotton’s severe struggles with PTSD and postpartum depression caused her to disconnect from her own thoughts and commit unthinkable crimes around England during the 1850s and 60s. Many of the people closest to her did not survive the wrath of her anger. Sponsors! Torrid - Go to Torrid.com and use Promo Code SERIAL15 for $15 off every $50 you spend! That means you can get up to $150 off a $500 order! Upstart - Hurry to Upstart.com/SERIALKILLERS to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate is! Checking your rate only takes 2 minutes—and won’t affect your credit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,
0:02.8	listener discretion is advised.
0:04.8	This episode includes discussions of murder and assault
0:08.0	that some people may find offensive.
0:10.1	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:14.0	It's a bitter cold winter's night in England.
0:18.0	A fire crackles in a study lined with books and oil paintings.
0:22.0	In the kitchen, Maryne Cotton, the nanny of the house, puts a kettle on the stove.
0:28.0	The grand house is what Marianne had always wanted since she was a little girl.
0:34.6	She longed to be the lady of a beautiful home.
0:37.8	Its many rooms adorned with the finest of everything money could buy. But one obstacle stood in the way of her life of lace and silks.
0:47.0	Mary Ann takes a glass container of a fine white powder from her cabinet.
0:52.0	Arsenic. She puts a spoonful into her... white powder from her cabinet.
0:52.5	Arsenic.
0:53.5	She puts a spoonful into her kettle
0:55.8	and takes the tea tray down the hall.
0:58.3	She enters a room thick with the smell of vomit.
1:02.3	A child lies in the bed, soaked with sweat.
1:05.0	His skin has yellowed and the hair on his head has come out in large clumps.
1:10.0	He gasps for air as Marianne holds a cup to the dying boy's lips, coaxing him to take another
1:17.8	sip of tea. She smiles.
1:21.2	This was all part of her wicked plan.
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