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Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men / Harold Schechter.

By: Publisher: New York : Little A, Little A, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 316 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781477808955
  • 1477808957
  • 9781477808948
  • 1477808949
Other title:
  • Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.1523
LOC classification:
  • HV6517 .S343 2018
Summary: "The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket.Summary: Belle Gunness 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 La Porte, 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... they'd been butchered. Schechter profiles the killing spree of the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard.
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Books Books Leesburg Public Library Biography Biography B Gunness, B. Schechter Available 33099004287226
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-294) and index.

"The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket.

Belle Gunness 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 La Porte, 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... they'd been butchered. Schechter profiles the killing spree of the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard.

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