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I pull up outside a house in the Durham mining village of West Auckland to find an anonymous-looking place: a slim, three-storey family home distinguished from its neighbours only by its pretty, blue-grey paint.
There are no clues as to its gruesome past. Even its original house number has been changed, perhaps from fear that the evil that was perpetrated here could pass down through successive generations of residents.
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 eventually being executed at Durham Jail in March 1873.
Britain's first serial killer Mary Ann Cotton: She poisoned 21 people including her own MOTHER, CHILDREN and HUSBANDS.
Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2012 8:12 AM EST
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As the article points out, it really is strange that Mary hasn't been as infamous as Jack the Ripper.
Great article!
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#1 - Sun Feb 5, 2012 6:54 PM ESTWouldn't you just try to avoid being around someone that was so associated with death after a while.
Creepy.
- 3 votes
She wasn't all bloody, gory, or gripping an entire female populace of a lg British city in terror, that's why. She wasn't even suspected to have been on a killing spree until her very last victim.
- 3 votes
Interesting that Jack the Ripper is much more ''well known''....
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#2 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 11:34 AM ESTCool story. I lived near Durham for 3 years and never heard of her.
Incidentally when my grandmother died we found 5 pairs of false teeth in her dresser drawer....none of them hers. And I do know she once nursed an Irish immigrant friend who died in her house. Hmmmm, maybe Grandma wasn't as sweet as she seemed??
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#3 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 7:25 PM ESTmaybe Grandma wasn't as sweet as she seemed??
LOL
we found 5 pairs of false teeth in her dresser drawer....none of them hers
Um....who got the honors of sticking all 5 sets of dentures in & out of her mouth to figure that out?
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LOL She died with her's in!! And they were all different sizes.
There was also a stuffed mounted parakeet in one drawer. Grandma was little odd......
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