![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They had been butchered.Ī forty-two-year-old Norwegian emigrant, Belle had purchased the farm in 1902 with the insurance money she came into when her first husband, Mads Sorenson, died suddenly in convulsive agony. True, most of her victims had apparently been dosed with arsenic (then readily available in the form of the popular vermicide, “Rough on Rats.”) But the corpses that were dug up on her Indiana “murder farm” hadn’t simply been dispatched with poison. of female serial killers-poisoning their victims, then pretending that the deaths were due to natural causes.īelle Gunness was different. But they had all shared the traditional m.o. There were other female “murder fiends” in our country before Belle-Lydia Sherman, Sarah Jane Robinson, Jane Toppan. What made her even more unusual was the extreme savagery of her crimes. My subsequent research into the Belle Gunness saga led me to conclude that she was that rarest of all psychopaths: a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. For she lived in the glory of butchering men. ![]()
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