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Mother Admits Poisoning Three Children in Crown Point
Crown Point Indiana mother Anna Cunningham 49 confessed from jail to poisoning three of her five children with arsenic and to harming her only surviving son David who remains hospitalized. She described giving poison to Isabelle Harry Charlie and Walter on bread with butter and said she used arsenic during blue spells while denying harming others.
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