Three children, as well as the home’s owner—a 48-year-old widow named Belle Gunness—were likely sleeping. Maxson was the family’s hired farmhand and had lived on the small La Porte ...

Belle Gunness with her children Philip Gunness, on lap, and Myrtle and Lucy Sorenson in the late 19th or early 20th century. Officials sift through the ashes of the Gunness family home that burned ...

Say what you might about Belle Gunness, but she sure had a head for business. Once she discovered the money that could be made in insurance, there was just no stopping her. Mrs. Gunness didn`t ...

It's the story of Belle Gunness, a LaPorte woman who, at the turn of the 19th century, may have killed at least 20 people -- and perhaps many more, including her own husbands and children.

LAPORTE, Ind., Nov. 16.-Prosecutors Smith, in the case of Ray Lamphere, on trial for the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children, to-day gave interest to the proceedings when Asle K.

LAPORTE, Ind., Nov. 21.-The testimony of three witnesses who declared that they saw Mrs. Belle Gunness alive several months after the fire that destroyed her home constituted the most interesting ...

Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth was born in Norway and came to the US in 1881. Later known as Belle Gunness, she married Mads Albert Sorenson in 1884. The couple produced four children ...

Brenda was a killer most comfortable on her own turf, not unlike the alleged female serial killer Belle Gunness. Although ...