October 16, 1892 - Lyda Southard
Southard's alleged crimes unfolded quietly across a series of marriages, each ending in a death that drew little suspicion until the pattern became too consistent to ignore. Operating in rural Idaho in the early twentieth century, she is suspected of poisoning at least four husbands, a brother-in-law, and her own daughter — extracting arsenic from household flypaper and collecting life insurance payouts in the aftermath. The domestic setting and the ordinariness of her methods were central to how long she evaded detection.
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Lyda Southard (October 16, 1892 – February 5, 1958), also known as Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood, was an American female suspected serial killer. It was suspected that she had killed four of her husbands, a brother-in-law, and her daughter by using arsenic poisoning derived from flypaper in order to obtain life insurance money.
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