In March 1908, Asle Helgelien, a South Dakota farmer worried about his missing brother, wrote to Belle Gunness, who had a farm near La Porte, Indiana. Andrew Helgelien hadn’t returned after telling ...

LAPORTE, Ind. — Asle Helgelien didn’t believe Belle Gunness’ claims that his brother, missing for months after answering the widow’s lonely-hearts ad, had left her northern Indiana farm for Chicago or ...

Long before online dating, proto-Craigslist killer Belle Gunness used newspaper ads to find men — and leave them dismembered in shallow graves Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime ...

LAPORTE — A television series that’s in the works will recount the story of a LaPorte woman who is believed to have murdered more than two dozen people a century ago. SERA Films has optioned Harold ...

LAPORTE — He wasn't one of Belle Gunness' murder victims, but legend has it that Ray Lamphere was a victim of the LaPorte serial killer in a way that cut his life short. And now Lamphere has a new ...

In 2008, forensic anthropologists dug up four old graves in an attempt to solve a century-old mystery: What ever happened to Belle Gunness? She was the most deadly black widow of them all, even though ...

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