A prop for the background of my short film.

1. Accidentally killing at least 2,000 people, Charles
Hodgson, Joseph Neal, and William Goddard were
all charged for manslaughter. In the end, these
charges were later dropped.
Noticing how dangerous these supplements can
be, stronger regulations were then put in place
creating 'The Pharmacy Act of 1868' where only
druggists and chemists are legally allowed to sell
such medications, as we have today.

2. Mary Ann Cotton (Robson)

3. BRITAIN'S FIRST LADY
SERIAL KILLER
Mary Ann Cotton (Robson)
Born in Low Moorsley, 31st of October 1832, Mary
Ann Cotton was charged for the murder of her
step-son, leading to her sentenced death by
hanging on the 24th of March, 1873 at the age of
forty.

4. Nicknamed the 'Dark Angel', Mary Ann Cotton would use
arsenic powder to murder her supposed loved ones.
Murdering possibly over 21 people, Mary Ann would go
after her husbands, children and even her mother all for the
money in their life insurance. Collecting as much as £35 on
each victim, (equivalent to £3,560), the killer would place
arsenic powder in the food and beverages of each family
member.
With arsenic powder not being the easiest to identify back
then, doctors would put the blame for death on gastric
fever, allowing Mary Ann to get away with the murders for
as long as she did.
Through her three-day trial period, Mary Ann had pleaded
innocent running up to her day of the hanging.
Playing on her innocence, it wasn't until the morning of the
hanging she had claimed that she may have "accidentally"
killed her step-son.