Belle Gunness: The Norwegian Black Widow

Killer Psyche

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Exhibit C, True Crime

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the case of Belle Gunness, a Norwegian immigrant who arrived in America in the late 1800s. Known as “The Black Widow,” Belle found financial stability through multiple marriages...but the men she entrapped met gruesome ends, with their remains discovered buried on her property. The true extent of Belle Gunness’ crimes remains unknown, but it is believed that she killed at least fourteen people, including her own children and several suitors. After her crimes were discovered, Gunness disappeared without a trace. Many suspect she faked her own death and lived off her victims’ money.

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0:09.0	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:15.0	Please be advised. In 8 a.D. the Roman poet Ovid wrote his epic work Metamorphoses, which consisted of 15 books based on the transformations
0:38.6	that occurred in Greek and Roman mythology.
0:42.6	In book six, Oven recounts the myth of Arautney, a human who boasted to be even better than
0:49.8	the goddess associated with weaving Athena.
0:54.4	Enraged, the goddess challenged her to a weaving contest.
1:00.0	When the goddess examined the flawless tapestry that Arachne had woven, Athena knew the mortal had one.
1:09.3	Even worse, that tapestry showed scenes that insulted the gods and goddesses.
1:16.0	This infuriated Athena who ripped Erachne's tapestry apart and then hit her with pieces of her own weaving loom.
1:26.0	Ashamed, A Rachne hanged herself.
1:30.0	The loss of such great talent saddened Athena and she transformed a
1:37.8	Recney into a spider so that she could continue to weave beautiful patterns.
1:45.0	Since then, Arachnids or spiders have become a sign of creativity and for some an omen of good fortune and luck.
1:59.0	Well, most spiders, the superstitions did not include the tarantula or the black widow's spider.
2:09.3	The female black widow has a red hourglass shape on her abdomen and a poison that she uses to
2:18.4	paralyze her prey.
2:20.9	The spider got her name because of the tendency she has for eating the male that she has mated with.
2:29.0	Not always, but if she's hungry, her mate better watch out.
2:35.0	Bel goodness, the subject of today's episode,
2:39.0	has often been called a black widow because of her use of poison to kill her mates. But unlike
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