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Hell's princess, the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men, Harold Schechter

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Hell's princess, the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men, Harold Schechter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index

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contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hell's princess

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Harold Schechter

Sub title

the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men

Summary

"In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who 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 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, like victims of other female killers. They'd been butchered"--Dust jacket flap

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Belle Gunness, butcher of men

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