Mary "Frances" Creighton
The death of Ada Applegate in Baldwin New York was one too many deaths in the life of Mary “Frances” Creighton and would contribute to her undoing. Ada's initial cause of death was said to basically be a heart attack but then authorities realized that there had been several unexpected deaths surrounding Frances Creighton and re-examined Ada's death. In fact in 1923 both Frances and her husband, John Creighton were put on trial for the death of Frances' brother, Raymond Avery. Ada Applegate's cause of death would be changed to arsenic poisoning. In 1935 Frances, her husband John, their son and their teenage daughter, Ruth lived with Everett and Ada Applegate and their young daughter. It was the Depression Era so this was not that uncommon. Families came together to conserve finances and things just to get by. It was said that at some point Frances and Everett began having an affair. It was not clear whether John knew of this but it was said tha...