The Derby Poisoner: How Lydia Sherman Killed 3 Husbands & Her Own Children
In the quiet kitchens of 19th-century America, Lydia Sherman smiled, stirred, and watched the people who trusted her most die in agony. Husbands. Her own children. Stepchildren. Arsenic in the oatmeal, the chowder, the hot chocolate. By the time anyone looked twice, at least eleven people were dead.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the chilling true story of the woman newspapers called the Poison Fiend, the Modern Lucretia Borgia, and the Derby Poisoner—how she got away with it for nearly a decade, the sensational trial that finally stopped her, and the brief prison escape that almost let her kill…
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