Belle Gunness, Part 1: The Men Who Never Came Home

Kat Has Questions: True Crime and Unsolved Mysteries · Nov 4, 2026 · 32m · transcript

Henry Gurholt wrote home about a promising new job on an Indiana farm. He liked his room. The fruit trees were blooming. His employer treated him almost like family.

Then his letters stopped.

His employer was Belle Gunness—and Henry’s family wasn’t the only one waiting for someone to come home.

In Part 1 of this two-part Kat Has Questions series, we follow Belle from her early life in Norway and Chicago to her farm outside La Porte, Indiana. As workers and prospective husbands enter her life, unanswered letters, abandoned belongings, and changing explanations leave their families searching…