Surprriissee Baddies! We're back with a brand new episode!
When a fire broke out at a farm in LaPorte, Indiana, in 1908. a disgruntled farmhand was immediately suspected of arson and the murders of Belle Gunness and her three children. But when investigators were forced to look deeper by a desperate man searching for his missing brother, they discovered a chilling web of disappearances and a trail of dead bodies leading to the identification of one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history. Join Carly and Tab as they unpack the dark secrets of the Black Widow of LaPorte/ the Mistress of Murder Farms and how she was able to operate undetected for years, hiding in plain sight.
This episode includes discussions of violence and murder, including violence against children. Please listen with care.
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Case Sources:
“Come prepared to stay forever”: The tale of a murderess in turn-of-the-century America - PhD Thesis by Paula Hinton from Miami University in Ohio
Hinton, Paula K. "Just Like One of the Family: An Immigrant Murderess in Turn-of-the-Century America." Ohio Valley History 6.4 (2006): 27-47.
Anne H. Lorentzen (2010) On the Performativity of Murder: The Female
Offender Revisited, NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 18:4, 246-265,
DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2010.521133
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-belle-gunness-murder-farm/selected-articles
https://www.biography.com/crime/belle-gunness
https://laportecountyhistory.org/exhibits/belle-gunness/
https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness