Short Biography: Mary Ann Cotton

Rough Draft
Mary Ann Cotton is known as a bad person. She had not only committed crimes but also had a hard life growing up which makes it realistic to how she became the person she is now. Her childhood and her having resentment towards men really tells why the way she is. There had been many family members that had died in her family as in her father while she was growing up. Soon later her mother had re-married which had led to bad conflicts with Mary.
Mary Ann Cotton had such a big family. She was born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 at Low Moorsley, and baptized at St Mary’s, West Rainton on November 11. Her father Michael , a miner who she wasn’t really close to was ardently religious and a fierce disciplinarian. Her mother
She never did really like being alone. Mary soon met James Robinson who he had hired Mary to be a housekeeper during the month of November 1866. James did have a baby, which had died also from a gastric fever. Later then he had turned to Mary for “comfort” which he had got her pregnant. Mary did not only worry about being pregnant but she had went to check on her mother that wasn’t doing too well and came to find out she became ill and started to have stomach pains then soon died nine days after Mary’s arrival at age 54 spring of 1867. Not too long after that, Mary’s daughter Isabella, who which she had to William was brought back to the Robinson’s household who soon also died from stomach pains so did another two of Robinson’s children. All three was buried in the last two weeks of April 1867. Robinson soon decided to marry Mary and then got her pregnant again with a little boy named George. Which was born on June 18, 1869. As days went on James started to realize something isn’t right. He realized that he was going into debts because she was stealing his money. Later then she had kicked her out and got full custody of
A post mortem was conducted; some of the contents in the stomach was taken out for testing and checked for anything out of the ordinary to see what was really going on. It was then confirmed that Charles Cotton died of “Arsenic poisoning”. The “Arsenic Poisoning” which was VERY powerful and would kill you within a second, was what Mary had been using the whole time to kill everyone she had killed. She had got it from the place where she had worked at. Mary Ann Cotton was convicted of murdering Charles Cotton. She was also convicted of murdering 17 other people who died of “gastric fever”. All together it all added up. Mary Ann Cotton had killed 21 people during her lifetime. She had kept using the “Arsenic Poisoning” the kill everyone with which made them suffer with severe stomach pains then it would later be diagnosed as gastric fever. Everyone she had murdered was the people she was really close to. Everyone had noticed that she had not killed anyone that she “didn’t”