Mary Frances Creighton: Who was America's Lucrezia Borgia?

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When Mary Frances Creighton was arrested for poisoning her brother, the tabloids went crazy, comparing her to Lucrezia Borgia. Mary was also accused of poisoning her mother-in-law and her work caught up with her when she struck again, years later.

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1:27.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HouseStopWorks.com.
1:37.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:46.7	I'm Sarah Dowdy, and I'm DuBlanche Archer-Bordy.
1:48.7	And we are continuing with our spooky Halloween series.
1:51.7	It's time covering something that's very creepy, very disturbing.
1:56.7	And that is, of course, poison.
1:59.7	So just a few years back, Katie and I did an episode on a pretty notorious poisoning family.
2:06.7	You know what I'm talking about, DeFlinus.
2:08.7	Oh, yeah, the Borges.
2:09.7	The Borges. They have their own show these days.
2:11.7	But the Italian clan, of course, was fathered by a cardinal who became Pope.
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