When thinking about serial killers, no one really thinks of women, especially from the 1800s. Belle Gunness, a.k.a. Lady Bluebeard, is known as one of the most dangerous serial killers to some, but to others, she’s widely unknown. Having a partner in crime, she would lure men to her farm through ads and proceeded to take everything the victim had along with their life. Lining her pockets with anything she could get, it is said she was criminally active for about fourteen years before she mysteriously disappeared. Belle Gunness committed many acts of insurance fraud, murder, and arson. Part 1: Belle Gunness Origins The life of Belle Gunness began in the town of Selbu, Norway. November 11, 1859, Brynhild Paulsdatter Strset was born the youngest
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Two life insurance policies overlapped and were never ruled suspicious, so when Gunness went to claim the checks, she was given a total sum of 8,500 dollars. Even with the suspicions on her back from her former in-laws, she would take the money and purchase the soon-to-be-famous Gunness farm in La Porte, Indiana (Rosewood 202) (Donica). While she moved to her newly bought farm with her remaining foster daughter, she met up with Peter Gunness, an old friend and a recent widower. They almost instantly clicked and married in the year 1902 on April 1, which he then moved onto the farm with his two infant daughters (Rosewood 202). He had hoped that Gunness was a good mother figure to help raise them. A week after the marriage, one of his daughters died while alone in the house with his new wife Belle Gunness. Peter Gunness was devastated to hear the news and in December of the same year, Belle Gunness claimed yet another life insurance check on her new husband. Peter Gunness allegedly died reaching for his slippers above the stove, fell, burned himself with the brine cooking on the stove, and somehow proceeded to get knocked on the head by a falling meat
Two life insurance policies overlapped and were never ruled suspicious, so when Gunness went to claim the checks, she was given a total sum of 8,500 dollars. Even with the suspicions on her back from her former in-laws, she would take the money and purchase the soon-to-be-famous Gunness farm in La Porte, Indiana (Rosewood 202) (Donica). While she moved to her newly bought farm with her remaining foster daughter, she met up with Peter Gunness, an old friend and a recent widower. They almost instantly clicked and married in the year 1902 on April 1, which he then moved onto the farm with his two infant daughters (Rosewood 202). He had hoped that Gunness was a good mother figure to help raise them. A week after the marriage, one of his daughters died while alone in the house with his new wife Belle Gunness. Peter Gunness was devastated to hear the news and in December of the same year, Belle Gunness claimed yet another life insurance check on her new husband. Peter Gunness allegedly died reaching for his slippers above the stove, fell, burned himself with the brine cooking on the stove, and somehow proceeded to get knocked on the head by a falling meat