By the time she celebrated her 27th birthday, Lyda Trueblood of Twin Falls, Idaho would witness her four husbands, her brother-in-law, and her baby daughter meet sudden and tragic deaths. It would take a Sheriff’s Deputy, the coroner, the discovery of a strange specimen, a stolen diamond, and a hunt for the killer cross country to reveal the truth.
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Research and Course Materials:
University Courses: Violence in America, Gender & Crime, Women's History 1880-1980
The Chariton Courier, The Great Falls Tribune - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
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Mallicoat, S. L. (2019). Women, gender, and crime: a text/reader. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Matthews, M. (2018, February 4). Sixty years after her death, the legend of Twin Falls serial killer Lyda Southard lives on. Twin Falls Times-News
