Graveyard murder mystery

Did Belle Gunness kill three children in 1908 to help disguise an escape from her Indiana farm where dozens of bodies were unearthed? Forensic anthropologist Andi Simmons and a team from University of Indianapolis dug up the graves in a Chicagoland cemetery to find out.

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• murder
• belle
• gunness
• indiana
• mystery

[newfful]

I wonder how she was able to raise some of her kids to be the age they were and then just kill them.

I mean, I can't imagine a woman like Belle Gunness having the amount of babies she did. Then caring and putting much responsibility into them..that is until they were old enough to walk like Jennie Olson. I'm surprised she even lived to be as old as 16 under her care.

Usually mothers already have a maternal attachment to their own children once they've raised them out of babyhood.

[xymex]

i don't believe she would have simply died in that fire.

[sweetkittytwine]

i believe bell used another womans body to burn. she got away. she was to evil and to good at planning murder. i hope she is burning in hell now. so evil, all those children,. men, other innocent people . how depraved and sick and evil. and how odd the people that built their house on her old foundation. icky...lol

[medesdaddy]

Any update on the DNA story?

[andyneuman]

@newfful I grew up in LaPorte, IN (where her farm burned). They were not her kids, they were the children of the men she killed, and some were adopted, or fostered. She had one son who died very young.

[emilmoen]

She was in my family : O

[nathanwilefrazier]

As it turns out, wiki reports that she was kicked in the stomach at a dance by a rich man, miscarried her baby, the perpetrator was never brought to justice, and her personality changed disturbingly from that point forward.

Since the rest of her murders revolved around children, wealthy men, and their life insurance policies, it appears that she was reliving her original trauma.

[nathanwilefrazier]

Some think that this kind of thing happens when the personality is compartmentalized by a trauma into "normal" and "rageful" components. It is odd that nothing triggered the rageful component for a full 16 years in one case though...

Another pattern is decompartmentalized; if she were purely sociopathic, she may have e.g. used her children to win the trust of her victims and then kill them when they got in the way of her plans to rob them...

[norvegiaostfaan]

off off, derre sælbyggen xD

[tommy9596]

hey, I live in selbu where she is from

[keyey12]

You know, She has the Gunness name from around where I live in Norway. I could just go down there in 2-3 hours where they think her 2 husband (Peder Gunness) came from...

[yorubablk3]

They have a 'Jane Doe' body.She was reportedly a derelict that Belle picked up to use as a foil, as she decided to make her getaway.