Mary Blandy
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Mary Blandy was an eighteenth century British murderer. In 1751, she poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic. She claimed that she thought the arsenic was a love potion that would make her f
Blandy in 1751/52
Parricide
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Parricide is the deliberate killing of one's own parent. It is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to acts of matricide, the deliberate killing of one's own mother, and patricide, the deliberat
Mary Blandy
…Minister and Home Secretary (as Viscount Sidmouth). On Easter Monday, 6 April 1752, Blandy was hanged outside Oxford Castle prison for the crime of parricide. Her case attracted a great deal of attention from the press. Many pamphlets claiming to be the "genuine account" or the "genuine letters" of Mary…
Tullia Drives over the Corpse of her Father
Parricide, capital punishment in Jersey