And there was a pretty young woman named Mary Ann Cotton who couldn’t bear to have anyone standing in her way. Mary Ann Cotton, née Robson, was born in 1832 to poor teenage parents who moved ...

MUM-of-thirteen Mary Ann Cotton killed off husbands, lovers and children in her 21-year reign of terror. She became one of Britain's worst serial killers, but who was ...

Mary Ann Cotton, a nurse and dressmaker from the North East began her killing spree in the mid-1800s and became known for her signature weapon of choice — arsenic. But was Mary Ann Cotton ever ...

However, history also remembers those who have done wrong. Those like Mary Ann Cotton, whose life and actions are remembered owing to infamy. But why has she been viewed in history in such a ...

Mary Ann Cotton, the subject of ITV's new historical drama Dark Angel, was a Victorian Sunday school teacher, a nurse, a wife and a mother. But she was also a serial poisoner who is said to have ...

This is the home in which Britain’s first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, claimed her final victim. It is the house in which she was arrested and then taken away to be incarcerated, before ...

The 19th Century had its own serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, who murdered four husbands, a lover, and several children. Former Watford detective PAUL HESLOP investigates. SHE was small and frail ...

On Friday, March 8, 1873, Justice Sir Thomas Archibald (above) pronounced the sentence of death on Mary Ann Cotton, 40, of Front Street, West Auckland, who may to this day be Britain’s most ...

It was a story which gripped Victorian Britain: One hundred and fifty years ago, multiple murderer Mary Ann Cotton was executed at Durham prison by the prolific hangman William Calcraft.

Fans of Downton Abbey’s Anna Bates were likely spooked by Joanne Froggatt’s character in Dark Angel: the manipulative real-life serial killer Mary Ann Cotton. In this episode, MASTERPIECE ...

One of the more notorious cases was Mary Ann Cotton. Born in northeast England in 1832, Cotton was impregnated at 19, and she and her miner husband traversed much of the country in search of ...