Harlem’s Deadly Darling The “Derby Poisoner,” The Chilling Tale Of Lydia Sherman, 1845 (Video)
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Harlem‘s Lydia Sherman, known as “The Derby Poisoner,” was a notorious 19th-century American serial killer who murdered multiple husbands and children between 1864 and 1871. An overview Born Lydia Danbury in 1824 in New Jersey before the Harlem Renaissance, the blue-eyed Sherman was orphaned as a child. Both of her parents were alcoholics and she was…
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