During the early 1900s, not one person knew the truth about cook Mary Mallon, not even Mary herself. So, when she served her famous dessert of peaches and ice cream to her wealthy employers, they dug in. But what followed was a deadly mystery that took investigators years to solve.
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All they knew was that every victim had one thing in common: They had hired Mary as their household cook. Typhoid Mary, as the press liked to call her, turned out to be one of America’s biggest outcasts, and to think that it all started because of a bowl of ice cream. So, let’s take a journey back in time to see how this mystery unravels.