main peaceful quiet and safe but in the late 1800s one woman brought poison and death into her own home her name Mary Cowan the bour of Maine her weapon arsonic her victims her own family first her husbands one after another they fell ill and died each time she played The Grieving Widow while collecting insurance money then the unthinkable she turned on her children over a decade four of them died slow agonizing deaths neighbors pied her no one suspected the truth but her third husband he survived suspicious of his sudden illness doctors investigated when authorities exhumed her family’s bodies the truth was clear high levels of arsenic Mary C was arrested convicted and forever remembered as one of Maine’s most infamous Killers a mother a widow a murderer like comment and subscribe for more stories like this.
