March is Women's History Month here in the United States.

It's a month during which we celebrate the vital contributions women have made to history and society,

and recognize the specific achievements women have made in a variety of fields,

medicine, politics, civil rights, the arts,

and of course, murder. Fireside Mystery Theater is proud to share with you our very first

true crime series. It's all about women having it all, a career, a family, a backyard overflowing with rotting corpses.

This is a second episode in our series and part one of a very curious, pitch black story about a widow, her love-struck suitor, and a town that just wouldn't listen.

The murder of Bell Gunness was recorded live in New York City on February 23, 2020.

Evil. It lives within us all. How many of us have felt our hot tempers rise, our blood boiling, our fists clenched in the rage of a moment of sublime darkness? How delicious would it be to snuff out that

buzzing fly, that screeching bird outside the window,

that man who tells us to smile because we look so pretty when we smile.

Come on, pretty, pretty.

Give us a smile.

I'm not your monkey, and my face isn't here to entertain you, jerk man.

So what stops us?

Fear?

Love.

Guilt.

Who can say?

Perhaps tonight we'll find out.

My dearest friends, this evening we shall meet a coven of real-life killers pulled from the pages of history,

all of whom have one thing in common.

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