Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Serial Killer

This episode is from Series 8 of I Could Murder A Podcast, originally released without video. While it doesn't follow our usual visual format, we’re excited to finally share this series here on YouTube for everyone to enjoy. Thanks for listening, we hope you love the content just the same!

In the quiet villages of Victorian England, a pattern of death began to unfold around one woman. Husbands, children, stepchildren, and even her own mother fell ill and died under suspicious circumstances. The common thread was Mary Ann Cotton, a woman who became infamous for turning arsenic into a deadly solution to her problems.

As authorities started connecting the dots, they uncovered a string of alleged poisonings stretching across multiple towns. Her motive appeared chillingly simple: collect life insurance payouts and move on to the next victim.

In this episode, we step into the fog of 19th-century England to explore the life, crimes, and eventual capture of a woman who may have murdered over a dozen people. Was she cold and calculating, or a product of desperate times? And why did it take so long for anyone to notice?

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