The Delaware Poisoned Candy Murders of 1898

Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Rockwood Park & Museum
New Castle County
Program: The Delaware Poisoned Candy Murders of 1898

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Program is free to the public. Museum admission before or after the program is $8-$10.

One Delaware summer afternoon, a young wife in Dover received a gift box of candy in the mail. Two days after enjoying the treat with family and friends, she and her sister were dead of arsenic poisoning. Discovering who had sent the deadly delicacies, and why, exposed a tangle of lies, jealousy, adultery and betrayal in a trial that mesmerized the entire country in 1898.

Join Margaret for this lecture program!

Rockwood Park & Museum
4651 Washington St Ext
Wilmington DE 19802
302-761-4340

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