"Hell's Belle" Gunness

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to cover the crime spree of Belle Gunness, a farm owner in Illinois in the early 1900's. They start off with some relevant details of her early life and her immigration to the US from Norway, and then get into the suspicious deaths of people surrounding her who conveniently had named her as the beneficiary of multiple life insurance policies. They also break down how it all came to and end, and the trial that followed it which left many questions unanswered. To end the show, the travel back in time to explore old marital ads that were published in various newspapers, and decide if they would swipe left or right to these eligible bachelors looking for love. RESOURCES: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness https://laportelibrary.org/at-the-library/explore-local/belle-gunness/ https://laportecountyhistory.org/exhibits/belle-gunness/ https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/triflers-need-not-apply-the-story-of-deadly-belle-gunness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.9	Slack.com slash DHQ. On April 28th, 1908, authorities were called to the gunnest farm in Illinois
0:35.9	to investigate a fire. When they looked through the ashes, they were horrified by what they found.
0:40.9	Among the wreckage, they found the remains of three children, along with a headless woman
0:44.9	who was presumed to be the owner of the farm, Bell Gunnest. However, as they started to
0:50.2	dig further into the wreckage, they began finding an alarming number of human remains,
0:55.2	and a full investigation was launched to get to the bottom of it.
0:58.5	What twisted occurrences had been happening at Bell's Farm?
1:02.2	Sorry, that's a good question. Some twisted occurrences for real. Why not just say indeed
1:15.2	this time? It really, I mean, if anybody like me ever is always just zillowing homes
1:23.1	with a lot of land just to start a new life, this case may not want to do that.
1:27.8	I mean, this case, it's terrible, but I jokingly say it's iconic because it is really just
1:39.7	a case study in the parallels of life insurance.
1:47.6	We always say.
1:48.6	It should be taught in accounting classes. I don't know who ends up doing audit in
1:52.9	class. Who if your study life insurance, you study this?
1:56.2	I mean, yeah, I just also, it's a case study in why you shouldn't answer personal ads
2:01.7	in the newspaper, which I don't think exists anymore so good.
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