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1908 Woman serial killer Belle Gunness...
1908 Woman serial killer Belle Gunness...
Item # 724785
May 06, 1908
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, May 6, 1908
* "Lonely Hearts" Woman killer Belle Gunness
* La Porte, Indiana murder farm discovery
The top of the front page has a 3 1/2 column headline: "GHASTLY Evidence Found Of Wholesale MURDER" with subhead. (see images). Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 8 pages, some small binding holes along the spine, minor margin wear, small stain, generally nice.
background: In 1908, the horrific mystery of Belle Gunness reached its climax when her La Porte, Indiana, farmhouse burned to the ground, revealing a "murder farm" that shocked the nation. While the charred remains of her children and a headless female corpse were found in the cellar, the subsequent excavation of her hog pen uncovered a grisly graveyard containing the dismembered remains of over a dozen men who had answered her "lonely hearts" advertisements. These victims, lured by the promise of marriage and Belle’s requirement that they bring their life savings in cash, had been systematically poisoned with strychnine or bludgeoned before being butchered with clinical precision. The central enigma of 1908 remains whether the headless body was truly Belle or a decoy she planted to facilitate her escape; despite the conviction of her hired hand, Ray Lamphere, for arson, many believe the "Black Widow" successfully faked her death and vanished with her fortune, leaving behind a legacy as one of America’s most prolific and calculating female killers.
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