Lyda Southard's Crimes
Why did every husband keep dying?
4.1 (29)
39 mins
Discover how Lyda Southard was linked to a string of suspicious deaths between 1915 and 1920, including four husbands, her young daughter and a brother-in-law. Explore how investigators found arsenic in several exhumed bodies and discovered that her husbands had repeatedly named her as their life-insurance beneficiary.
Ep 1:
Idaho's Lady Bluebeard Begins
Meet Lyda Trueblood Southard: the churchgoing Idaho beauty whose husbands kept dying of 'typhoid' and 'food poisoning' while her insurance payouts quietly piled up.
Ep 2:
Hawaiian Hideaway for a Poisoner
As suspicion mounts, a chemist's soil test and a determined deputy expose arsenic in six graves—so Lyda flees across the Pacific, charming a new husband along the way.
Ep 3:
Trial of Flypaper Lyda
National headlines dub her Idaho's Lady Bluebeard as 150 witnesses, flypaper evidence, and a jailbreak built on roses and a smuggled saw upend her carefully poisoned life.
Ep 4:
The Pardon and the Hairless Corpse
Recaptured with gold teeth and dyed hair, Lyda somehow wins a shocking pardon—only for her final husband to vanish, and her own death to reveal a chilling secret.
Discussions (5)
Prince
Level 10 · 2 weeks agothe part about her laughing at Ed's grave got me. like not even pretending to be sad. just standing there laughing. the audacity is insane
Rodney
Level 6 · 2 weeks agoDid you catch that Warden Rudd was literally taking this convicted killer to the movies and resort trips... and called it rehabilitation? Bro got completely played by Flypaper Lyda just like every husband before him.
David
Level 9 · 2 weeks agoSeven husbands, a barrel of flypaper, and a full pardon. Lyda didn't beat the system — the system handed her the trophy.
