True Crime -- 4 stars
Belle Gunness' first husband died under questionable circumstances. She used his life insurance money to purchase an Indiana farm where a procession of workers arrived but quickly disappeared never to be seen again. When Belle's farm house burned to the ground in 1908, just a day after she purchased several large cans of kerosene, nobody expected to find bodies buried all over her land. Two children and a headless adult female were found in the burned out cellar. Were they Belle and her family? Or was the headless corpse a decoy? The prosecution hopes for answers when they put one of Belle's last farmhands on trial. ----- Meticulously researched, the story of Belle Gunness is delivered in a dry, fact-based style. It is difficult to accept that so many who knew her never suspected that she was a killer, but the letters she left behind and the dismembered bodies put an end to any doubt. The farmhand's trial ends with many of the questions surrounding Belle Gunness unanswered, but the story still fascinates.
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