Wow I really liked the video Hope you are ok Hugs from Sweden

Good grief! Good thing someone decided to finally look into these deaths, or she would have worked her way around to the rest of us.

This “benevolent woman” really took no prisoners, sheesh, absolutely no one was safe.

I can’t fathom : 1, going through all 7 pregnancies. 2, then killing then. What a mess.

I'm only amazed she hadn't taken out life insurance policies on them! Good work Brief Case! 🙂

Wow. Glad to hear the first husband's son showed concern over this half siblings but it's too bad he was ignored. I imagine he was married with his own kids at this point, some of whom might have been the same age. It must have been a bit traumatic.

Fascinating case! I'm always amazed at how many people in history could poison so many people without being suspected for a long time!

I am surprised she had any friends to help her in her escape! Love listening to your readings/stories.

I think once you decide to kill your children for financial reasons there is no line one won’t cross which explains her go-to response to getting what she wanted.

what gets me is when they think they can kill everyone around them and never raise any suspicions, especially when her stepson was suspicious.

Fearing for his own safety, Edward was slow to respond to the disturbance at the hotel, and got fired for dereliction of duty. Fast forward 2022, the police in Uvalde, TX, should be fired too.

How truly vile. The step son from the first marriage was the only one able to catch on so quickly. Rest in peace to her many victims.

Arsenic sure came in handy yrs ago, didn't it? Mother's little helper. We haven't heard about many women dying from it. Lydia was pretty crafty .

This was a fascinating and yet horrific story about murderess, Lydia Sherman. How this woman murdered by arsenic poisoning all these people and no one was the least suspicious before, I can't comprehend it. But, I'm glad that she finally confessed to the murders of her husbands, children and step- children, too. Great investigating and presentation, as always.

Thanks for another fascinating case! I found her very difficult to feel any sympathy for. She seems not to have had much herself!

Dang, she's just as likely to poison someone as to shake their hand! Great one BC!

I had never heard of this case before...Makes you wonder how many more like her were out there that no one has heard of.

Hair raising woman, hellish, strange, and from where did the murderous intent come from. Fascinating.

Goodness! It sounds like she got addicted to murdering people! Apparently she didn't love any of the men she married after the first one. I could almost understand her killing him in those days with him lying around in bed and her having six children to support but as I listened and learned that she killed them all and then went on to kill another husband and another! This is unbelievable!

I'm bewildered by how nonchalant poisoning was back then.

I suppose "Serial Killers" have been around as old as time. It amazes me that a woman as Lydia Sherman would have such a cold heart getting rid of her husbands and precious children for her own convenience. I guess one can thank that Police Sargent who gave Lydia the idea to rid of Edward her first husband, from then on: it was piece of cake! RIP all family and friends who had the bad luck of being in or around that nut case. Have a good week BC and faithful listeners. Elizabeth C.

The cover of her book was super creepy!! 😳 I really do not know how a mother can not only poison her own children, but sit there and watch them suffer. Arsenic poisoning was said to be a painful way to go! This lady was truly something else! Idk how she got away with it for so long. It's super suspish that every time she got remarried kids and husbands would start dropping like flies!! 🤦🏼‍♀️ And then she even escaped prison?? This was a fun one! Truly enjoyed it! Thank you for another fascinating story! See ya next week.

Oh my! She was a piece of work. And a proud one at that. With all these kids jumping and hollering, it took me a good three hours to watch, but it was worth it. Thank you, Mr. Case. I appreciate all your hard work. 😁

Hi BC! Lydia was something else. I lost track of how many she said she killed, but it makes me wonder how she became a sociopath or whether she was since childhood. Murder escape from prison and a book. She did it all.

I love starting my week off with one of your horrifying stories! 💕

Wow, she was unbelievable. Thanks for another great story. See you next week!

This is perfect! A Monday morning with the marvelous Brief Case uploading another video. Lydia, was quite an awful woman, poisoning is such a terrible way to go. 😖 It's fascinating how she escaped prison and had a book written of her crimes.

Thanks brief case have a great week everyone

Thank you BC, for delivered stories never told before, i don't know how you do this, but you do it very well!

Good morning from Alberta. This case makes me curious as to how many others may have committed such crimes and were not caught due all the deaths due to rampant Illnesses at that time?

Beauty is the perfect mask for EVIL! Thank you Brief Case for telling us this story 💞

It always amazes me how many female killers there were years ago.

Amazzzzzzzing story as expected. Keep up the good work 👏

Hello and greetings from Ireland.

It 13:09 pm in South Africa, good afternoon BC family, love Mondays💙

Wow, lots of women used poison back then and got away with murders. Thank you BC 😊

Her mother sending her away to live with an uncle on a farm after she remarried must have made Lydia feel worthless and a burden. That mindset regarding people and especially children, seems to have then made it easy for her to kill anyone she considered worthless and a burden. She was damaged. Cold & emotionless. Typical of many serial killers. A tragedy for anyone who came into her life.

You have to be very cold hearted to kill a baby just to get the mother in law out of the house. That makes sense as to why she agreed to have her husband exude. Because, she really didn't poison him. That's crazy! All those lives. Everyone stay safe. ✌️ BC

Lydia should have gotten the death penalty anyway regardless of what she claimed, that the last husband's death was accidental. I think the criticisms from the newspaper editors were justified, that the jurors found her guilty of second-degree murder and not first out of consideration for her gender. And then she goes on and "writes" a book bragging about her deeds. The lucky ones were the suitors who pursued her for matrimonial reasons and were not up for her consideration.

I always look forward to Brief Case new uploads because they are always very interesting and the narrating is very enjoyable

TY...I so enjoy your presentations. Narrator's voice is unique & melodious. The older murders are intriguing & interesting, maybe because they were from a supposed "gentler" time period.

What drives someone to kill children? 🤬

The high infant mortality at the time enabled her to get away with it longer than she would have otherwise.

Good Monday everyone! One thing I admire most about BC..is the respectful way he addresses and narrates the stories! I feel like Lydia resorted to doing away with her first victims (her disgraced husband and 3 youngest) out of misplaced sense of desperation.Getting "rid" of them,as though they were "liabilities" to her way of thinking, seemed to make some sort of twisted sense to her.It was an easy fix,one she gained more confidence in getting away with it with each progressive person she killed.After a while it became too easy for her and became more of a remedy and a method of selfish motives for her own benefit.She was indeed a "Poison Fiend" and murdering anyone is despicable,but I can't fathom a mother poisoning infants and standing by and watching them go through horrible and painful deaths ,no matter how desperate the circumstances.Also I think it quite possible that her 3 older children must have had some suspicions of their mother but we're in fear of her killing them if they spoke up.Another remarkable tragic tale of a monstrous woman with no conscience to speak of! Thanks BC ! See you next week !❤️

There was a very similar case that happened in my home town, Cincinnati, sometime in the late 19th century-early 20th . The husband was a police officer who was dismissed for heavy drinking, and they had about 7 children. The killer, later remarried to a man with 2 small children. The man and the children were murdered., though one of the them were not poisoned, but was killed in another way.

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Another interesting case. Thank you for sharing BC.

GREAT STORY AS ALWAYS. LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE. GREAT CHANNEL U AND FORGOTTEN LIVES.

Great story as usual! Thank you Brief Case She would have killed until her death! Is no doubt she liked the method of poison ☠️ ☮️🌼🐝safe!

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Love listening to this before bed, your voice is so relaxing 😅

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your stories! You know how to make things interesting, informative and easy to remember. Thank you!! 😊❤

Been following your vids for a while now. The amount of research that goes into them to find illustrations, newpaper articles etc must take ages. Amazing work!

I have watched/listened to every one of your videos numerous times, over and over again. I find the cases fascinating and your voice extremely soothing. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you put into these videos. Not sure how I’d sleep without you. You rock Brief Case man.🙌

One of the very few cases from your amazingly remarkable channel I was quite familar with beforehand. It is quite an intriguing case and you deliever the story equally intriguing. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant! You scored with this early American serial killer I have never heard of before. Thanks!

Excellent presentation of a complicated case! Thank you!

ok i now have watched over 20 of these vids...well done mate. i watch 2-4 per evening. Thank you so much.

Wow that was great thanks Brief Case

Greetings BC and to all fellow BC subscribers!

I adore your channel and greatly appreciate the detail you put into the episodes 💐 thank you

Sad story, happy to see you this Monday.

Thank you kind sir @o much for giving us another great video!

i have a feeling that she killed the first husband and the children to have less mouths to feed

I don't know what I'd do if I were her, losing my husband and all 7 of my children. Well, I guess she was one of the original black widows. So many deaths followed her, I actually lost count as to how many she killed, seriously. A modern Borgia, referring to Lucrecia Borgia, pope Alexanders daughter, supposedly she loved to use poison.

Yay was just hoping for something good to watch

I'm a bit late to the party, just wanting to drop a thank you! Keep up the awesome work Briefey, it is certainly appreciated 😊

So this demon of a woman almost got away with about 11 murders because she was such an "Upstanding" member of society?? And she didn't get the death penalty because??

Always interesting Thank you. Peace,,,💕🇺🇲

Good morning BC. As always you have done a great job of presenting such an interesting case. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sending much love and blessings your way

Another excellent story of a poison Queen, thanks for the upload and the excellent production by BC.

Another great story. Keep up the great job

I discovered your channel months ago when i was suffering bouts if bad insomnia and anxiety. Listening to you tell these stories would really help get my mind off things and relax. Thanks BC ✌🏻

Love your channel

Hey my friend as always your videos are sensational I just finished binge watching your other videos I heard about this story it's sad I envy you because I couldn't make this video it's just so tragic be blessed my friend

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Great story! Thank you for your hard work to bring us these interesting stories.

You do an amazing job with these stories. Thank you for sharing

After listening to quite a few of these stories, Women really DO use posion often for murder. Damn how many women got away with murder because they didn't go extreme and kill everyone they could?

Another interesting case. Ty!

Thanks!

Wow she certainly didn't hold back from slaughtering her entire clan of children did she. She was absolutely brutal. No doubt she was the cause of all those mass killings. Another top video from u Brief Case as always. Love these old historical crimes that happened so many vast years ago that barely anyone knew about. You're definitely the person to come to when covering cases like these. Top work & as usual very well narrated

Hi i just want to say thank you for your work and you are thee best.

I always enjoy these videos.

Good grief! Come on the whole family wiped out and only she remained! That was the first clue, you could literally wipe out a small village but if they thought you were cute,( I don't see it). And I guess beauty is in the I of the beholder. Those poor children being murdered by the one they trusted the most. She was just pure walking evil! Great story BC! Great job as well keep doing what you do.

Thank you, BC!

Great story!!!

What a fascinating story well told as always.

BC wow i just (still) ( after seeing every BC episode) love your stories so much, they are sad, but I often think of them as ''Mythology-like Moralistic Tales of how to LIVE RIGHT , OR TO LIVE WRONG. THERE is so often NOT any in between , the line between right and wrong is so CRYSTAL CLEAR in most stories, in particular POISONING YOUR WHOLE FAMILY , AN all-too-common phenomenon in the 1800's. Thank you for all the detailed work you put in. Bravo on this one !!

Thank You

and another great story!

Fun Fact ~ Just for clarification for the North American viewers when the narrator says Lydias eldest daughter also named Lydia worked as a clark... It is "Clerk", for some reason the British use an A sound instead of our E in clerk.

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Good morning!