True Crime Tuesdays on the Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mary Cotton – the Arsenic Widow

Enjoy this True Crime Tuesdays episode, brought to you courtesy of author Franklin Maw’s upcoming Blood Evidence: 25 True Crime Chillers.

She married often, and buried often — husbands, stepchildren, her own children, one after another, in a mining town that had already seen more than its share of death. No one thought to ask why. Arsenic was cheap, convenient, and nearly impossible to prove… until someone finally did. This is the story of Mary Ann Cotton, one of Britain’s first convicted female serial killers, and the quiet, domestic horror she left behind in West Auckland. This is “The Arsenic Widow,” from Franklin Maw’s Blood Evidence.