1. Cordelia Botkin was an American murderer who sent a box of poisoned candy to her ex-lover's wife.
11 Facts About Cordelia Botkin
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Cordelia Botkin later moved with her family to California, where she married her husband, Welcome Botkin.
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In 1895, Cordelia Botkin met John Preston Dunning while he was bicycling in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
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Cordelia Botkin had been promoted to superintendent of the Associated Press's Western Division bureau in San Francisco.
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Cordelia Botkin was estranged from her own husband, a grain broker in Stockton, California, but he supported her with regular remittances.
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Cordelia Botkin was next let go by newspapers in Salt Lake City and San Francisco because of his habitual drunkenness.
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Cordelia Botkin reconciled with his wife before leaving for Cuba, where he helped save survivors of the Spanish battleships that were sunk at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on July 2,1898.
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Cordelia Botkin sent anonymous letters to Elizabeth Dunning detailing her husband's affairs.
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Cordelia Botkin was prosecuted in the murder trial on April 30,1904.
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Cordelia Botkin was convicted of murder in December 1898, appealed, and was convicted again at a retrial in 1904.
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Cordelia Botkin was initially imprisoned in San Francisco, but after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was transferred to San Quentin State Prison, where she died in 1910.