Podcast Ep 183
Belle Gunness: The Hog Farm Killer
A widow, a string of lonely-hearts suitors, and a burned-down farmhouse.
La Porte, Indiana, 1908. Belle Gunness's farmhouse burns down with what appear to be her three children — and an adult woman's headless body — inside. The dig that followed turned up at least eleven more victims in the hog pen.
Show notes
How Belle's lonely-hearts ads worked, the suitors who arrived and never left, the dental-bridge identification dispute, and the fifty years of credible sightings after she was supposedly cremated.
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