The Horrifying & Mysterious Historical True Crime Case of Cordilia Botkin | Victorian Era True Crime
The Horrifying & Mysterious Historical True Crime Case of Cordilia Botkin | Victorian Era True Crime
The horrifying true crime case of Cordelia Botkin - America's first murder-by-mail killer. In 1898 Dover, Delaware, a pink-ribboned candy box exposed San Francisco mistress Cordelia's deadly revenge. This vain, obsessive woman lured war correspondent John Dunning into a disturbing affair, then when abandoned, laced chocolates with arsenic and mailed death across 3,000 miles. Two victims—Mary Elizabeth Dunning and her sister Ida—killed by jealous rage traveling through the United States Postal Service. The chilling mystery: America's first interstate murder prosecution where evil arrived disguised as a thoughtful gift at a respectable congressman's home in this mysterious case of long-distance betrayal and systematic poisoning.
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