Mary Frances Creighton
Mary Frances Creighton | |
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| Born | July 29, 1899 Rahway, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | July 16, 1936 (aged 36) |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Conviction | First degree murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
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. She passed out before the execution, and was executed in an unconscious state. Creighton was suspected in and had been acquitted of two previous murders in New Jersey in the 1920s.