Sometimes bad luck looks a lot like premeditation.

One woman, five husbands, a few tragic kids, and a suspicious amount of arsenic.

Thing is, people kept dying around Lydis Southerd, and she kept collecting life insurance like it was a loyalty program she was signed up for.

This story takes us from rural Idaho with a prison escape and a saw hidden in plain sight.

But before we jump in, if you like your true crime brief and bingeable, you're exactly where you need to be.

Hit follow now for at least two new episodes every week. This is 10-minute murder. Let's get into it. Lida True Blood was born in Keatsville, Missouri, in 1892.

Life was tough for just about everybody back then, but Lida seemed to pull the short straw more often than not.

At 20 years old, she married a farmer named Robert Dooley. The two of them moved around trying

to find a place that felt like home. Eventually, they landed in Twin Falls, Idaho, where Robert and

his brother Edward found work on a ranch. Lida had plenty to do.

She kept the house running, made sure the men were fed, and looked after their daughter Lorraine.

Lorraine was born a year after the wedding, and by all appearances, she was just the beginning

of what looked like a growing family.

But that never happened.

Typhoid fever was everywhere, and medical care in 1915 was more guesswork than help.

The first to get sick was Edward. He came down with a fever, non-stop vomiting, and sharp pain that did not let up.

Doctors called it typhoid. Edward died later that year with his brother and family by his side after

every attempt to save him failed. Not long after Edward's death, tragedy hit the Dooley family again.

This time it was three-year-old Lorraine. Lida knew exactly what had caused her daughter's sudden

decline. She'd seen Lorraine drinking from the well on their ranch,

the same well that would later be found to be contaminated.

Whatever was in that water hit fast.

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