Harvest Time On The Murder Farm
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Episode 308 examines the strange story of Belle Gunness, which came to light only after her house burned down with her body presumably inside and a dozen or so bodies buried in the yard. There’s a lot of conjecture and debate about this case still going on today.
Culled from the historic pages of the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:40.3 | Leport, Indiana, April 29, 1908. That Mrs. Bell Gunnus, who with her three children, were burned to death in a fire which |
| 0:50.3 | destroyed their homes Tuesday morning, feared death at the hands of her rejected suitor, |
| 0:56.2 | Ray Lamfeer, was made known today when her will was opened. |
| 1:00.8 | The instrument was executed the day before her death. |
| 1:04.8 | Monday, Mrs. Gunnus visited the office of M. E. Lelliter, an attorney of this city, |
| 1:10.8 | and in tears told him that she feared |
| 1:13.1 | she did not have long to live. She told the attorney, it is alleged, that her life had been |
| 1:19.2 | repeatedly threatened by Lamfeer, an ex-farmhand, who had persistently laid suit to her affections |
| 1:25.8 | and whom she had spurned. She said she desired to make |
| 1:29.7 | dispositions of her property. The will executed at that time, provided that in case of her death, |
| 1:36.2 | her estate, valued at $15,000, should go to her children, aged 5, 7, and 11, and if the children were not living at the time of her demise, |
| 1:46.9 | the property should go to the Norwegian orphan's home in Chicago. The administrator, appointed today |
| 1:53.7 | by Judge Ryder of the circuit court, will carry out the provisions of the will. Today, Lamfeer, |
| 2:03.6 | who is in jail pending an investigation of the crimes of murder and arson, was subjected to a severe sweating. He admitted that he was in the city |
| 2:10.3 | Monday. He said he came to the city with John Wheatbrook, the farmer at whose place he was arrested, |
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