Belle Gunness

[My Good Babushka]

In 1902, 42 year-old Norwegian immigrant, Belle Gunness, bought a farm in Indiana with insurance money she got from her husband’s and two children’s death. Nine months later her second husband died, and in the next six years, many suitors disappeared. When the brother of a missing boyfriend got too close, the barn burned down- 1908. The remains of four people were found stacked in the cellar. Three were Gunness’s children. One was a headless woman. There were corpses found all over the property. A farmhand, Ray Lamphere, would lure victims to the farm where they would drug them and kill them with an axe. Gunness killed more than forty people, making her one of the America’s most prolific killers. Her own fate in unknown. Some said the headless woman was left there by Belle who staged her own death and absconded with $100,000. There is not enough surviving DNA to know conclusively whether the headless corpse was Belle.

[frogmarch]

1. Yikes

Fascinating! I Googled her and found that apparently there's a movie about her:

http://www.bellegunnessthemovie.com/

The photo of the actress portraying Belle doesn't appear to be 6 feet tall and weigh 200+ pounds, though.

ahem... Of course the photo isn't 6' tall and weigh 200+ lbs. I meant the actress.

[My Good Babushka]

2. Neato! nt

[struggle4progress]

3. Let's not jump to conclusions: there may be a perfectly innocent explanation