Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic

Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic

Lyda Southard wanted a quiet life. She wanted a husband, a child, maybe a porch to sit on and watch things grow. What she left behind instead was a string of dead husbands, a trail of insurance payouts, and enough arsenic to make even the most optimistic pharmacist raise an eyebrow.

In this episode, we follow Lyda from rural Idaho to Honolulu, through five marriages, four funerals, one prison escape, and a shocking discovery that unraveled the truth she kept so carefully hidden. Was she just a magnet for tragedy, or was there a far more calculated pattern behind the pain?

It’s the story of America’s first known female serial killer, served up in a way that makes you lean in and question everything you thought you knew about grief, luck, and motive.

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