Small Town Mysteries
Death By Chocolate
In this episode, Rachael covers a 1800s case in which a woman by the name of Cordelia Botkin is jealous of her lover's wife, Mary, causing her to go to great lengths to have Mary killed.
Sources:
1) https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/death-by-chocolate-ab1f379e705c
2) https://billypenn.com/2023/09/17/botkin-dunning-case-murder-by-chocolate-delaware-valley/
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordelia_Botkin
4) https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/botkin-cordelia.htm
5) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65486684/flower
6) https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/candy-from-a-stranger-the-cordelia-botkin-case-of-1898/
7) https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/result.php?year=1898&amount=4000&transaction_type=PURCHASE
In this episode, Rachael covers a 1800s case in which a woman by the name of Cordelia Botkin is jealous of her lover's wife, Mary, causing her to go to great lengths to have Mary killed.
Sources:
1) https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/death-by-chocolate-ab1f379e705c
2) https://billypenn.com/2023/09/17/botkin-dunning-case-murder-by-chocolate-delaware-valley/
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordelia_Botkin
4) https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/botkin-cordelia.htm
5) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65486684/flower
6) https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/candy-from-a-stranger-the-cordelia-botkin-case-of-1898/
7) https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/result.php?year=1898&amount=4000&transaction_type=PURCHASE