Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Free Audiobook Download by Harold Schechter

In 1874, Belle Gunness, a woman with a mysterious past and no known living relatives, arrives in the small town of LaPorte, Indiana. She has built a sprawling mansion for her and her six children, she has furnished it in the finest furnishings and decor, and she is soon prosperous. A few short months later, she becomes not only infamous but also notorious as the "Butcher of Men" after she kills 11 of her husbands and their families during her lifetime.

Despite the fact that she was only four feet in height and weighed about 100 pounds, Belle Gunness ruled with an iron fist. She had a mansion on North LaSalle Street in Chicago where she lived with her older sister, brother, and niece. In 1892-93, her body count climbed to at least 120.

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter is a terrifying true story about the serial killer Belle Gunness. About how she got started, who helped her, and how the body count grew so high that the City of St. Paul paid her $5000 to leave town. After a long day at work, Belle would enter into a trance-like state in which she lured then killed men with promises of easy money and sex.

A woman who was known as the most wanted woman in America is the subject of this musical mystery. An author and historian sets out to find out what happened to Belle Gunness, a Wisconsin farmer's wife turned serial killer.

A woman living in Indiana, Mrs. Gunness was every man's nightmare. In her early to mid-20s, she lured men into her traps with a false sense of romance and then later killed them and tried to make it look like an accidental death. There is even evidence that she had a nursery to raise her victims' babies so that they could be sold as the next generation of Gunness children.

In the 1800's, a woman by the name of Belle Gunness began to raise and sell her own farm animals. She kept some of the animals in her home which she referred to as "the murder castle." She would then take these animals to the market and either sell them for a profit or eat them herself. On April 21, 1908, Gunness went on a killing spree that killed over 40 people who were staying with her in her home.