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[1] in order to obtain life insurance money.[2][3]
^ ab"Flypaper Lyda". Time. 13 October 1941. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010.
^"Charge Poisoning of Four Husbands" (PDF). New York Times. 13 May 1921. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^Newton, Michael (1990). Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers. Loompanics Unlimited.
LydaSouthard (October 16, 1892 – February 5, 1958), also known as Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood, was an American female suspected serial killer. It was suspected...
of the murder of her third husband. Sentenced to life imprisonment. LydaSouthard United States 1915–1920 1 6 Suspected of killing her brother-in-law...
flypaper in water has been used by several convicted murderers, among them LydaSouthard, Frederick Seddon, Florence Maybrick, and the Angel Makers of Nagyrév...
inmates were Harry Orchard and LydaSouthard. Orchard assassinated former Governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905 and Southard was known as Idaho's Lady Bluebeard...
killer; as of August 2023[update], awaiting execution for three murders LydaSouthard (1892–1958), American serial killer of husbands and other family members...
Odyssey (1990) Lady Bluebeard (1994) - the true story of serial killer LydaSouthard How to Survive Hospital Care, or "Why They Keep Bedpans in the Freezer"...
male Dan Ross; Frank Belknap Long published Gothics under his wife's name, Lyda Belknap Long; the British writer Peter O'Donnell wrote under the pseudonym...
another young child before his capture Southard, Lyda 1915–1920 6 6 Released in 1941 Known as "Flypaper Lyda"; serial poisoner who killed four husbands...
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