A Nightmare at Murder Farm: The story of one of America’s most prolific serial killers.

The crimes are so similar, Belle Gunness sounds like she could have been one of the Bloody Benders.

Strange Remains

Belle Gunness and her three children.  Image Credit: Wikipedia Belle Gunness and her three children. Image Credit: Wikipedia

Children in La Porte, Indiana grow up listening to graphic horror stories about the gruesome murder’s committed by Belle Gunness on her farm at the end of McClung Road. The most disturbing part about these grisly stories is that the gory parts are not fiction. Belle Gunness (also known as Lady Bluebeard, The LaPorte Black Widow, The Mistress of Murder Farm, and Hell’s Belle) was probably one of America’s most prolific serial killers who likely killed between 25 and 30 people, including women and children, at the turn of the 20th century.

Belle’s crimes were discovered on April 28th, 1908 when authorities were called out to the Gunness farm to investigate a fire that razed the farmhouse. When officials combed through the ashes they found the remains of a headless woman and three children. The remains were thought to…

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~ by S.K. Epperson on June 5, 2014.

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