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Plump Mistress Killed Her Lover's WIFE with Poisoned Candy...She Hoped To Kill His Daughter Too.
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31:45Now PlayingA shocking true story from the Gilded Age. In 1898, America witnessed its first murder by mail when jealous mistress Cordelia Botkin sent arsenic-laced chocolates across the country to kill her lover's wife - and innocent child.
This Gilded Age scandal rocked Victorian society and made headlines nationwide. When war correspondent John Dunning abandoned his overweight mistress to reconcile with his wife, Cordelia Botkin's revenge was swift and deadly. She purchased chocolates, injected them with enough arsenic to "kill a horse," and mailed them from San Francisco to Delaware with a note reading "With love to yourself and baby."
Two women died agonizing deaths. The killer had never even met her victims.
This real Gilded Age murder case shows the dark side of America's most glamorous era - the same period featured in HBO's The Gilded Age Season 3. While the show depicts the wealthy elite of New York society, this true crime story reveals what happened when forbidden love, jealousy, and poison collided in 1890s America.
From Golden Gate Park to the courtroom, this is the scandalous true story of America's first mail-order murder that shocked the Gilded Age world.
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