Episode Notes
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"Botkin Poison Case: How Love Turned to Death." San Francisco Examiner, 29 August 1898. https://www.crimetraveller.org/2021/01/cordelia-botkin-infamous-poisoning-crime
Geary, Rick. The Bizarre and Ghastly Murder of the Dunning Sisters by Cordelia Botkin. New York: NBM Publishing, 2005. https://www.nbmpub.com/murder-bizarre-dunning-sisters-graphic-novel
Lafferty, Michael. "Murder by Mail: Cordelia Botkin and the Poisoning of the Dunning Sisters." The Crime Library, 24 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100624012111/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/cordelia_botkin/index.html
Newton, Michael. The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes. New York: Facts on File, 2004. https://www.infobasepublishing.com/Encyclopedia-of-Unsolved-Crimes
Roth, Mitchel P. Historical Dictionary of Crime and Criminal Justice. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810845166/Historical-Dictionary-of-Crime-and-Criminal-Justice
Roth, Mitchel P. An Eye for an Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810845166/Historical-Dictionary-of-Crime-and-Criminal-Justice
Schneider, Adam. "Cordelia Botkin: America's First Poison Pen Murderer." Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, 12 February 2018. https://www.unsolvedmysteriesofthepast.com/cordelia-botkin-americas-first-poison-pen-murderer
Sifakis, Carl. Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. https://www.abc-clio.com/Women-Criminals-An-Encyclopedia-of-People-and-Issues
Stanley, Jerry. The Poisoner’s Hand: Cordelia Botkin’s Deadly Love Letters. Chicago: Tantor Media, 2010. https://tantor.com/the-poisoners-hand-cordelia-botkin-and-her-deadly-love-letters
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