150 - Belle Gunness and Her Murder Farm

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Hinker du teh hoingy boingy! Uff da! Uff da! Tiddly winks teh dingy thingy. Don't worry - not all of today's show is in Norwegian (and neither is that gibberish). Talking about Norway's infamous export, serial killer Belle Gunness, today on the Suck. It seems as if she had begun to operate a "murder farm" in Laporte Indiana at the dawn of the twentieth century. We'll never know exactly how many people Belle killed, but we do know a lot about her story. Motivated by money, she sacrificed both strangers and family to accomplish her goal of becoming wealthy and lured an unknown number of men to Indiana under the false pretense of buying into her farm... and then they disappeared forever. More true crime today on Timesuck! Feel the Heat album Link: https://bit.ly/2WVJuax Donating $2600 this month: 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida Rescuehttp://100plusabandoneddogsofevergladesflorida.org/ Come to my standup special taping at Crofoot in Detroit on Friday, October 18th. Two shows! First is at 6:30PM: https://bit.ly/2N3E1tP . Second show is at 9PM: https://bit.ly/2FoADU6 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** August 11th - Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsor: Harry's! Get a special deal on a trial offer for Harry's when you go to HARRYS.COM/timesuck Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bHWOb6laoIY Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Bel Gunnace, Hells Bell, Lady Bluebeard, Black Widow,
0:04.2	Bel Gunnace had a lot of nicknames and a changing legal name as you'll find out today.
0:08.7	This Norwegian American immigrant of many names, this daughter of poor Scandinavian farmers,
0:13.8	would be an incredible American dream, racked to riches success story.
0:17.8	If she just wouldn't have made her fortune off of a series of cold-blooded murders,
0:21.8	most of which took place in La Port, Indiana.
0:24.4	On her farm, a farm that became known as the Murder Farm.
0:28.2	She buried over 10 people, including her own daughter on that murder farm,
0:32.0	and she fed who knows how many other victims to her hogs.
0:36.0	Bel killed to collect an insurance fraud, she ran numerous murderous romance scams,
0:40.8	and she killed to cover her tracks in Chicago and Indiana, mainly in Indiana at the dawn of the 20th
0:45.4	century. And then right what it looked like, she might finally get caught. It tastes just a bit
0:50.1	of justice. It appears that she faked her own death, sacrificing not one, not two, but three of
0:56.3	her own children to do so. And then it looks like she got away with the murders of anywhere from
1:01.2	13 to 42 people, to possibly many, many more. We'll never know exactly how many people
1:06.8	Bel killed. We'll never know exactly how many lonely men answered her newspaper ads,
1:11.0	looking for a man with some cash to invest in and help run a beautiful farm alongside a loving woman,
1:16.6	men who with rare exception were never heard from again once they answered that ad.
1:22.0	We do know an awful lot about her life, though. Thanks to all of the interviews conducted in the
1:25.8	sensationalized wake of the discovery of her murder farm, interviews with Bell's family,
1:30.6	neighbors, lawyers, bankers, other business associates, and more. And all that information gave
1:36.3	us more than enough fodder to spend a darkly delightful, bloody little murderous yarn on another
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