Episode 37: Toxic
“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.
“A Bronx serial killer escapes from prison in 1916,” Ephemeral New York, June 22 2015, https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/serial-killer-frederick-mors/.
Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, (Penguin Press, 2014), 27, 39, 148.
Mark Gado, Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press, (Praeger, 2007).
“Mary Frances Avery Creighton,” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12244271/mary-frances-creighton.
“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.
“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.
“Creighton’s Life Fight Today,” New York Daily News, June 18, 1923, p. 1
“Death For Creightons Asked,” New York Daily News, June 19, 1923, p. 1
“Mrs. Creighton Faces Jury Calmly,” New York Evening Post, June 19, 1923, p.1
“Boy of 18 Murdered with Slow Poison,” New York Times, May 13, 1923, p. 1
“To Exhume Bodies of the Creightons,” New York Times, May 14, 1923, p. 3
“Creighton Defense to Rely on Experts,” New York Times, July 13, 1923, p. 8
“Jury Again Acquits Mrs. Creighton of Murder Charge,” New York Times, July 14, 1923, p. 1.