Belle Gunness

Indiana’s most notorious serial killer Belle Gunness murdered up to 40 people. after she moved from Norway to Chicago in 1881. She killed most of her suitors and boyfriends, and her two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy. She may also have killed both of her husbands and all of her children, on different occasions. When she was about to be exposed as a killer, she burned down her home and feigned death while successfully framing the only potential witness to her crimes, who died a year later in prison. She managed to vanish with a small fortune in premarital gifts and insurance payments and was never seen again.