Britain’s First Serial Killer
Britain’s First Serial Killer Whilst doing some local research on my latest novel, I pulled into the old Durham mining village of Bishop Auckland the other day. There are few clues to its gruesome past, but the house I came to visit was once home to Britain’s first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton. No angel, Mary Ann had supposedly poisoned 21 people before she was finally arrested, incarcerated, and was hanged in Durham Jail, in March 1873. Even today, few people have heard of
