The Heinous Crimes of Cordelia Botkin
A woman, scorned by her lover, commits America’s first murder by mail
7 min readNov 12, 2019
San Francisco, California
24 Mar 1904, Thu • Page 9
Cordelia Adelaide Botkin, née Brown, was born around1854 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1872, Cordelia married a man named Welcome Botkin and the couple had one son together, Beverly. They made their home in Stockton, California, where Welcome worked as a grain broker. The couple became…
