[2] Her mother remarried a third time in 1872 to Baron Adolph von Roques, a cavalry officer in the Eighth Cuirassier Regiment of the German Army.

[4] Florence made quite an impression on the social scene in Liverpool, and the Maybricks were usually to be found at the most important balls and functions, the very picture of a happy, successful couple.

But Maybrick, a hypochondriac, was a regular user of arsenic and patent medicines containing poisonous chemicals[3] and had a number of mistresses, one of whom bore him five children.

On 9 May, a nurse reported that Florence had surreptitiously tampered with a Valentine's Meat Juice[5][6] bottle that was afterwards found to contain a half-grain of arsenic.

In her memoir, Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years, Florence describes the following, as she knelt down by her late husband's bedside:[8] Death had wiped out the memory of many things.

I was thankful to remember that I had stopped divorce proceedings, and that we had become reconciled for the children's sake.His brothers, suspicious as to the cause of death, had his body examined.

In April 1889, Florence Maybrick was accused of using flypaper containing arsenic from a local chemist's shop and later soaked in a bowl of water.

After an inquest held in a nearby hotel, Florence was charged with his murder and stood trial at St George's Hall, Liverpool, before Mr. Justice Stephen, where she was convicted and sentenced to death.

A city chemist confirmed that he had supplied Maybrick with quantities of the poison over a lengthy period and a search of Battlecrease House later turned up enough to kill at least fifty people.

Florence spent her first nine months in solitary confinement before being moved to a different cell but remaining under the strictures of the silent system, whereby silence was enforced at all times.

She dubbed the practice 'by far the most cruel feature of English penal servitude' and emphasised the 'desolation and despair' that the 'hopeless monotony' of confinement led her to feel.

[14] During 1896, Maybrick entered into the prison infirmary for two weeks, suffering from a 'feverish cold' caused, she claimed, by the inadequate clothing, bedding and draughty cells.

After some months spent unsuccessfully as a housekeeper, Florence became a recluse, living in a squalid three-room bungalow in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, a village in New Milford, with only her cats for company.

Florence Maybrick died alone and penniless in her home in New Milford on 23 October 1941, and the next day her obituary was published at the top of Page One of The New York Times.

The 1952 film noir, A Blueprint for Murder, mentions Florence Maybrick, along with other notorious poison murderesses Madeleine Smith, and Lyda Trueblood.