Moms Who Kill

BET.com looks at mothers who have killed their kids.

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1860: Mary Ann Cotton - Mary Ann Cotton, an English serial killer, was believed to have killed more than 21 people by arsenic poisoning including her own children, from whom she collected insurance payments. \r(Photo: Wikicommons)
1972: Marybeth Tinning - Marybeth Tinning, a native New Yorker, is serving 20 years to life for killing eight of her nine children during the 1970s and 80s.(Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/AP)1983: Diane Downs - Diane Downs, an Oregon mother, shot three of her children, one of whom died, and told police a stranger had attempted to carjack her and had shot the children. She was sentenced to life in prison in 1984. Downs briefly escaped in 1987 and was re-captured.\r(Photo: Law Enforcement)

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Casey Anthony\r - On Tuesday, Casey Anthony may have been found not guilty on a count of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but many mothers have been found guilty. Some of those names throughout the years can be found on the following pages.

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