November 11, 1859 - Belle Gunness

Her method was methodical and sustained: she used personal advertisements to draw men to her Indiana farm, where they disappeared — their money gone, their bodies buried on the property. Over two decades, she operated largely without suspicion, exploiting the trust of people who believed they were responding to a romantic opportunity. The scale of what investigators eventually uncovered placed her among the most prolific killers of her era, and the uncertainty surrounding her own death left questions that were never fully resolved.

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Belle Gunness (born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth; November 11, 1859 – possibly April 28, 1908), nicknamed Hell's Belle, was a Norwegian-American serial killer who was active in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. Gunness is thought to have killed at least fourteen people (most of whom were men she enticed to visit her rural Indiana property through personal advertisements), while some sources speculate her involvement in as many as forty murders, making her one of the most prolific female serial killers in history. Gunness seemingly died in a fire in 1908, although her actual fate is unconfirmed.

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