Today, we dive into the shocking true story of Cordelia Botkin, a woman whose obsession turned deadly in one of America’s earliest cases of murder by mail. What started as a passionate affair spiraled into betrayal, bonbons, and devastation that stretched from San Francisco to Delaware. Tune in as we unpack the scandal, the investigation, the courtroom drama, and the woman at the center of it all.

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Sources:

Segrave, Kerry. Dying for Chocolate: Cordelia Botkin and the 1898 Poisoned Candy Murders. ABC-CLIO, 2020. https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Chocolate-Cordelia-Poisoned-Murders-ebook/dp/B08PW89QDP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordelia_Botkin

https://billypenn.com/2023/09/17/botkin-dunning-case-murder-by-chocolate-delaware-valley/

https://whyy.org/articles/100-year-old-murder-case-still-haunts-dover-delaware-video/

https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/candy-from-a-stranger-the-cordelia-botkin-case-of-1898/

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/death-by-chocolate-ab1f379e705c

https://www.secretsoftheeasternshore.com/chocolate-candy-murders/

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2022/06/mrs.html