The Torso in the Tank and Other Stories: True Crime from Around Tyne and Wear

Thankfully, hers is a record that none of the thirty murderers covered here have come close to although the gruesome nature of some of the deaths make Mary Ann's chosen method of dispatch - poisoning - seem almost merciful. The cases include: The brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in 1902 near the shipyards at Gateshead;