Hell’s Belle: The Widow Who Buried Her Suitors
She called herself a lonely widow with a farm outside La Porte, Indiana. The ads asked for a reliable man, preferably Norwegian, willing to come alone and bring cash. In the spring of 1908, neighbors dug up Belle Gunness’s hog pen and stopped counting the bodies. Alexander’s Lawson tells the story of the Norwegian-born killer known as Hell’s Belle: the husbands, the insurance money, the men who answered her lonely-hearts ads, the children in the fire, and the headless woman no one could prove was her. Belle Gunness was never arrested. Whether she died that night, or walked away with the…
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