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The Woman Who Poisoned a Village: Marianne Cotton's Arsenic Trail
The Woman Who Poisoned a Village: Marianne Cotton's Arsenic Trail
A string of unexplained deaths followed Marianne Cotton through County Durham - more than a dozen people died and each time the certificate named disease, not poison. A Marsh test on an eleven-year-old’s stomach produced a metallic sheen that would force the question: how many deaths hidden as typhoid, cholera, or gastric trouble were actually arsenic?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events in West Auckland and the discoveries that turned private tragedy into public suspicion, tracing Marianne Cotton’s marriages…
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