Lady Bluebeard
Lyda Southard (aka Lyda Trueblood, Lady Bluebeard) was America's second known female serial killer, a woman who called Twin Falls, Idaho her home and there committed her heinous deeds. Lyda was born in the flatlands of central Missouri in 1892, where she grew and met one Robert Dooley, a local boy, and easily took his heart. When she moved to Twin Falls, Idaho he followed after her, and the pair was married in 1912, Robert blissfully unaware of the fate that awaited him. They settled on a ranch with her brother in law, Edward Dooley, and eventually Lyda gave birth to a daughter they called Lorraine. In 1915, Lyda began collecting insurance policies. In August her brother in law sickened and died, supposedly from ptomaine poisoning, and she shared the insurance payout with the brother's widow and her husband. Only two months later her own husband came down with Typhoid fever and passed. Lyda collected a total of $2,000 from both deat...