Mary Ann Cotton, Dark Angel: Britain's First Female Serial Killer

A true crime account of the life, trial, death, and aftermath of Britain's first female serial killer.

A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. The perpetrator, Mary Ann Cotton, was tried and found guilty and...