January 1, 1893 - Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Her crimes unfolded quietly in a small English village, across multiple marriages that ended with suspicious speed — and with financial benefit to the widow who survived them. Wilson was convicted of poisoning two of her husbands using phosphorous-based beetle poison, though the full count of suspicious deaths in her orbit ran higher. The case drew lasting attention partly for its domestic ordinariness, and partly for its place at the end of an era: she became the last woman sentenced to death in Britain, a sentence ultimately commuted to life imprisonment.
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Mary Elizabeth Wilson (née Cassidy; 11 June 1889 – 5 December 1962), known in media as The Merry Widow of Windy Nook, was an English serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Britain. She was convicted of capital murder in Durham in 1958. However, the sentence was commuted to a prison sentence due to her advanced age.
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