Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting

murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

So campers, when we left you at the end of part one, Bel Gunnus's 16-year-old daughter

Jenny had just gone missing, along with a revolving door of mysterious male cousins.

She used her beautiful Laporte Indiana farm to lure bachelors to their eventual doom.

It seemed like nothing could stop her.

This is part two of Venus Flytrap, e-oldy bad bitch Bel Gunnus.

So in the summer of 1906, Bel connected with yet another man who responded to one of

her ads in a Norwegian language newspaper.

You know, wealthy widow needs partner to help run farm, etc.

Her new penpal was 49-year-old Andrew Helgelian, and they had an extensive correspondence

for a year and a half before they ever met face-to-face.

Conservative estimates say they exchanged at least 75 letters in that time.

Andrew kept all the letters bell sent them, and they're fascinating, they really give

us insight into the way she hunted for her victims.

But because Bel cared for nothing and no one and was probably too smart to hold onto evidence

that might hang her for murder, we don't have any copies of Andrew's letters to her.

So it's like you're listening to one half of a phone conversation on the train, except

fortunately for you, it's the juiciest half.

According to Harold Shecter, the letters were written in Norwegian, and when they were

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