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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

HELL'S PRINCESS-Harold Schechter

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm.” Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn’t merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. They’d been butchered.

Hell’s Princess is a riveting account of one of the most sensational killing sprees in the annals of American crime: the shocking series of murders committed by the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard. The only definitive book on this notorious case and the first to reveal previously unknown information about its subject, Harold Schechter’s gripping, suspenseful narrative has all the elements of a classic mystery—and all the gruesome twists of a nightmare. HELL'S PRINCESS: THe Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men-Harold Schechter

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history and

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the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, B.T.K.

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Every week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers

0:56.6

in true crime history. True Murder with your host, journalist and author Dan Zufanski.

1:12.6

Good evening. In the pathion of serial killers, Bell Gunnace stands alone. She was the rarest

1:20.5

of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed, but

1:26.6

mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting

1:35.0

victims to her Indiana murder farm. Some were hired hands. Others were well to do

1:42.0

bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn't

1:47.8

merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. They'd been butchered.

1:53.7

Hell's Princess is a riveting account of one of the most sensational killing sprees

1:59.0

in the annals of American crime. The shocking series of murders committed by the woman who

2:04.2

came to be known as Lady Bluebeard. The only definitive book on this notorious case,

2:11.3

and the first to reveal previously unknown information about its subject, Harold Shecter's

2:16.2

gripping, suspenseful narrative, has all the elements of a classic mystery and all the

2:22.1

gruesome twists of a nightmare. The book that we're featuring this evening is Hell's Princess,

2:29.0

the mystery of Bell Gunnace, butchered men, with my special guest, journalist and author,

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