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What if the most intimate betrayal wasn't a knife in the back—but a box of chocolates in the mail? The Dark and Disturbing Case of Cordelia Botkin takes us to 1898 San Francisco, where a forbidden affair between a married journalist and a woman ten years his senior ended in one of the first "murder by mail" cases in American history. When John Dunning told Cordelia he was returning to his wife after the Spanish-American War, she didn't beg. She bought chocolates, laced them with arsenic, and mailed them to his wife in Delaware with a note signed "With love to yourself and baby. Mrs. C." Mary Dunning and her sister ate the candy. Both were dead within days. The cross-country investigation, the handwriting experts, and the sensational trials that followed made Cordelia Botkin a household name—and landed her in San Quentin for life. Press play, and don't listen alone. New episode every week—subscribe and leave your review. 🎧
