4. Lyda Trueblood
Lyda (aka “Lydia”) Trueblood was first married in 1912. She and her husband settled in Twin Falls, Idaho, and had a daughter named Lorraine. While living there, a terrible sickness descended on the house. First, Lyda’s brother-in-law, with whom the young family lived, got sick and passed away. Not long after his death, Lorraine mysteriously got sick and died in 1915. A short time later, Lyda’s husband also was stricken and died.
Lyda remarried two years later. A few months after their first wedding anniversary, that husband also got sick and died. Then, in both 1919 and 1920, she married again. Neither man survived more than a few months of married life. SEE ALSO: Top 10 horrific children killers in history of the world – You will be shocked to see their evil deeds! (With Pictures)
Finally, the police suspected that Lyda’s four husbands, child, and brother-in-law did not die natural deaths. They did a blood test on the fourth husband and exhumed the bodies of Lyda’s three other husbands and daughter. After finding traces of arsenic in their bodies, the police went to arrest Lyda. But she was gone. Having escaped to California, she had married another man and was trying to convince him to get a life insurance policy.
She was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life.
After about 10 years, Trueblood settled into a routine. She didn’t cause much trouble, so the prison relaxed the rules for her. Taking advantage of the lax security, Trueblood knocked a bar out of her cell window. With a rope made from bedsheets, she climbed out of her cell and scaled a wall. Waiting for her outside was David Minton, with whom she had a relationship. He had been paroled from the prison three months earlier.
While on the lam, she left Minton and married her sixth husband, whom she was trying to convince to get life insurance. She was recaptured after fifteen months on the lam, and her sixth marriage was annulled. In October 1941, Trueblood was released to her sister’s home. She married again, but the man’s children wouldn’t allow Trueblood to see their father. She died in Utahin February 1958.
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