The Death of Mary Cawein AKA the Carbolic Acid Cocktail Murder Mystery

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 8:20 p.m.

b'Mary Cawein died in Lexington, Kentucky after a night of heavy drinking on the 4th of July, 1965. When she was found the next morning, she was slumped over in her chair. Autopsy reports showed that her stomach had been eaten away by carbolic acid. The official cause of death is suicide, evidence however, points to murder.'