She's dead and she's rotten
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I was just watching this documentary about Mary Ann Cotton, the very infamous poisoner from County Durham. She's the one who has given name to the rhyme 'Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and she's rotten'. I've been reading quite a bit about poisoners lately, mainly females because they seem to me more cruel than the male ones and also because poisoning people is very often the female murderer's preferred way of killing. Mary Ann Cotton killed several family members before she was caught in 1873.
A more recent infamous murderer is Marie Hilley who poisoned a couple of husbands and even her own daughter who luckily survived. There's also the case of Blanche Taylor Moore who poisoned people with arsenic. Her trial began in 1990 and she was sentenced to death by legal injection.
These women fascinate me. Our society usually think of women as nurturing and loving but having studied several murder cases in which the killer was a woman, I really believe that women can be every bit as nasty and evil as a male killer.
Perhaps sometimes even more so.
If your family members and friends - people you are supposed to care about - mean absolutely nothing to you, you're absolutely evil. If people only have value if they are of some sort of profit to you and your goals, you're absolutely evil.
Female poisoners I have studied considered other people just that: Insignificant objects to be used and put away. Nothing more.
Female poisoners I have studied considered other people just that: Insignificant objects to be used and put away. Nothing more.
