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The Poison Ledger

The Poison Ledger

著者： Peter Bell
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Each episode of The Poison Ledger opens one name from Britain's history of poisoners and follows it through the evidence, the trial and the verdict: the nurse who buried her families, the doctor whose case changed where a man could be tried, the Brighton woman who poisoned chocolates. Every case is true, every one is built from contemporary newspapers and trial records, and each one leads to the next. Episodes run under fifteen minutes, so you can binge them.


Written and produced by Purpose Made. AI-generated voice (ElevenLabs).

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  • The Woman Who Buried Her Families

    The Woman Who Buried Her Families
    2026/10/16

    West Auckland, County Durham, 1872. A seven-year-old boy is dead of what the doctor calls gastric fever. The village grocer remembers what the boy's stepmother told him only days before, and he won't let the certificate rest. A surgeon tests what he kept back, and finds arsenic.


    This is the case of Mary Ann Cotton: a nurse, a wife four times over, and a mother who buried child after child across the coalfield. It goes from the burial clubs that paid out on every death, to the graves opened one by one, the trial at Durham, and the gaol yard on 24 March 1873.


    Every detail is drawn from contemporary newspaper reports and trial records.


    Sources:

    The Northern Echo archive (1872–73)

    The Durham County Advertiser

    The Darlington & Stockton Times

    Capital Punishment UK

    Wilson, D., Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer (2013)


    Written and produced by Purpose Made. AI-generated voice (ElevenLabs).

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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