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Schechter, Harold,

Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men / Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Harold Schechter. - First edition. - xvi, 316 pages ; 24 cm

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.

ISBN: 9781477808955 1477808957 9781477808948

Subjects--Personal Names:
Gunness, Belle, 1859-1908.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women serial murderers--Biography.
Serial murderers--Indiana--La Porte County--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
LaPorte (Ind.)--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
True crime stories.