Mary Frances Creighton

Common card · No. 367678

Mary Frances Creighton (July 29, 1899 – July 16, 1936) was an American woman convicted and executed for murder by poisoning. Creighton was nicknamed "The Long Island Borgia" and the "Black-Eyed Borgia by the press, because of her use of arsenic poisoning. She was sentenced to death by electric chair. It was reported that the prison authorities had mercifully eased her path to the chair. They had, it was said, given her a hypodermic injection of morphine shortly before her execution, thereby inducing a coma. Creighton was suspected of murdering three people for life insurance money in New Jersey in the 1920s. She had been acquitted in two of these murders and was never tried for the third. Creighton confessed to one of these murders after her arrest in the third case.

Read on Wikipedia