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A search of the property produced bodies and body parts. When Andrew’s brother announced he was coming to look for him, Belle’s six-year spree abruptly ended in a house fire in which she seemed to have perished. She’d warned them not to reveal where they were going, but Andrew Helgelein did. The twice-widowed Belle published matrimonial ads, and those men who answered arrived, one after another, before each disappeared. She bought a pig farm in LaPorte, Indiana, which she soon turned into her personal graveyard. This Norwegian-American had insured her first husband and two of her children before killing them in the early 1900s to enrich herself.

Belle Sorrenson Gunness is a rare female serial killer who was exceptionally predatory.

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