A.K.A.: "The Merry Widow of Windy Nook"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: "Black widow" poisoner of husbands for profit
Number of victims: 2 - 4
Date of murders: 1955 - 1957
Date of arrest: December 1957
Date of birth: 1893
Victims profile: John Knowles (her first husband) / John Russell (her lover) / Oliver J. Leonard, 75 (her second husband) / Ernest Wilson, 76 (her third husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (phosphorus)
Location: Windy Nook, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to death in March 29, 1958. Commuted to life imprisonment on June 1, 1958. Died in Holloway Prison on December 5, 1962
Mary Elizabeth Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963), also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a murderer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out, as it was commuted to a prison sentence.
A.K.A.: "The Merry Widow of Windy Nook"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: "Black widow" poisoner of husbands for profit
Number of victims: 2 - 4
Date of murders: 1955 - 1957
Date of arrest: December 1957
Date of birth: 1893
Victims profile: John Knowles (her first husband) / John Russell (her lover) / Oliver J. Leonard, 75 (her second husband) / Ernest Wilson, 76 (her third husband)
Method of murder: Poisoning (phosphorus)
Location: Windy Nook, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Status: Sentenced to death in March 29, 1958. Commuted to life imprisonment on June 1, 1958. Died in Holloway Prison on December 5, 1962
Mary Elizabeth Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963), also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a murderer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out, as it was commuted to a prison sentence.
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