The Belle Gunnes case remains one of the greatest mysteries in American criminal history. He was a serial killer, but he committed his crimes quietly, in a way that no one would consider guilty. She played the victim, claiming that misfortune followed her and that she would die alone. However, all of this was just a veil over the atrocities she committed: she married men and then Kill her, keep her money and get life insurance.
She deceived, concealed her identity and was even able to kill some of her biological sons and daughters just so that there would be no witnesses to her murders or anyone who could betray her. Some workers on the farm she owned or suitors she did not marry also died at her hands.
It was never known exactly how many of his victims were, although it is estimated that he killed five biological children and her adopted daughter, as well as two husbands, several suitors, two daughters from her second husband, and more than thirty laborers who worked on her farm.
Born in a small town in Norway in 1859, she crossed the Atlantic at the age of 24 and settled in Chicago. He had no money, no famous people, or even a job, but his ambition and great attractiveness opened the doors he wanted. She met her first husband, Mads Sorenson, in 1883. a conservative man who desperately wanted to start a family, a wish he fulfilled along with Belle by adopting three orphans named Jennie, Myrtle and Lucy.
It seemed like a happy marriage and a story like any other, but one day A mysterious fire at the store where they worked destroyed the store and the home where the family lived.. Nobody died, though The couple took out life insurance and months later Mads died of what was believed to be a heart attack.
With this money and his adopted daughters, he moved to Indiana to build a farm. And that's where his criminal history began to grow. She met Peter, a widower with two daughters. Happiness seemed to return to Belle's life, but Strange deaths occurred, first of one of the adopted daughters, until the death of the second man. So she lived a single life, one after the other, in which each of her suitors, most of them wealthy men, died after approaching her.
His life, his crimes and his ability to evade justice were typical of a Hollywood film. Until his supposed death in 1908, it was uncertain as it is said that heWhen she was about to be arrested, she burned down the house and beheaded a woman to convince the police it was her and leave her for dead. In fact, for decades there were people who said they saw it in some cities in the United States.