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  • A Poisoned Life

  • Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England
  • By: Richard Jay Hutto
  • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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A Poisoned Life

By: Richard Jay Hutto
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England - for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison - in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband.

Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.
©2018 Richard Jay Hutto (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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just random stories

this is just random people and their lifes. could not get into it. what is this to do with Maybrick ??. waste of a credit. dont buy

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