Episode 37: Toxic

  1. “Answers to Questions About New York City Parks,” New York Times, September 5 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/nyregion/answers-to-questions-about-new-york-city-parks.html.

  2. “A Bronx serial killer escapes from prison in 1916,” Ephemeral New York, June 22 2015, https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/serial-killer-frederick-mors/.

  3. Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, (Penguin Press, 2014), 27, 39, 148.

  4. Mark Gado, Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press, (Praeger, 2007).

  5. “Mary Frances Avery Creighton,” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12244271/mary-frances-creighton.

  6. “MRS. CREIGHTON DIES FOR POISON MURDER; Appelgate Follows Her to the Death Chamber for the Slaying of His Wife.,” New York Times, July 17 1936, https://www.nytimes.com/1936/07/17/archives/mrs-creighton-dies-for-poison-murder-appelgate-follows-her-to-the.html.

  7. “Frances Creighton & Everett Appelgate,” Crime Library, May 29 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20120719234427/http:/www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/creighton_applegate/14.html.

  8. “Creighton’s Life Fight Today,” New York Daily News, June 18, 1923, p. 1

  9. “Death For Creightons Asked,” New York Daily News, June 19, 1923, p. 1 

  10. “Mrs. Creighton Faces Jury Calmly,” New York Evening Post, June 19, 1923, p.1 

  11. “Boy of 18 Murdered with Slow Poison,” New York Times, May 13, 1923, p. 1 

  12. “To Exhume Bodies of the Creightons,” New York Times, May 14, 1923, p. 3 

  13. “Creighton Defense to Rely on Experts,” New York Times, July 13, 1923, p. 8

  14. “Jury Again Acquits Mrs. Creighton of Murder Charge,” New York Times, July 14, 1923, p. 1.

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