Triflers Need Not Apply: Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Haunted History

Not long after she started her new life in the American Midwest, Belle Gunness begun methodically luring unsuspecting suitors through personal ads to her farm...only for them to later disappear without a trace.
As the police began investigating her mysterious farmhouse fire, their shocking and gruesome discovery would reveal Belle as being one of America’s most infamous female serial killers.
Haunted History is produced by SoundBite Studios with host Megan Alda and writer/researcher Chloë Kibbe.
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Episode Source Material
A nightmare at Murder Farm: The story of one of America’s most prolific serial killers by Strange Remains
How a farm girl became the butcher of ‘lonely men’ by Larry Getlen
The Story of Belle Gunness, One of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killers by Steven Casale
Corpses in the Pig Pen: The Tale of Indiana’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by Lucas Reilly
Castle Garden: Where Immigrants Came Before Ellis Island by The New York Historical Museum
Matrimony, Inc: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right: A Story of America Looking For Love by Francesca Beauman
Heartland Serial Killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and Murder for Profit in Gaslight Era Chicago by Richard C. Lindberg
Hell’s Princess by Harold Schecter
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