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Mary Ann Cotton (1832–1873): Suspected of killing 21 people, including husbands, children, and her mother, using arsenic in tea or food to collect insurance payouts. She evaded suspicion by blaming “gastric fever,” a common misdiagnosis, until an exhumation revealed arsenic.
• Nannie Doss (1905–1965): “Giggling Granny” poisoned at least four husbands and relatives with arsenic-laced prunes or stew in the U.S. from the 1920s–1950s. She collected pensions and insurance, feigning grief and blaming natural causes to avoid scrutiny for decades.
• Elizabeth Wettlaufer (1967–): Canadian nurse who confessed in 2016 to injecting insulin into 8 elderly patients (and attempting 9 more) from 2007–2016, causing fatal overdoses. She targeted vulnerable hospital residents, falsifying records and exploiting her medical role to delay investigations.
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