Lillie Mae Thurmond was a two-week-old Black female infant whose death appears in public accounts as one of the earliest tragedies later tied to the long and disturbing case surrounding Roberta Elder, the Atlanta woman who would become known in later reporting as “Mrs. Bluebeard.” The accessible online sources do not provide a clearly documented exact date of Lillie Mae’s death, but they consistently place her among the first suspected victims in a pattern of family deaths that authorities
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