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Hell’s Belle: The Butcher of La Porte and the Mystery That Still Haunts America
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Hell’s Belle: The Butcher of La Porte and the Mystery That Still Haunts America
Posted by admin on April 11, 2025, 01:11 113 0

From Selbu to Chicago: The Making of Belle Gunness

Born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth on November 11, 1859, in Selbu, Norway, Belle Gunness was the youngest of eight children in a poor farming family. At 21, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago with her sister. There, she Americanized her name to Belle and began working as a domestic servant before marrying fellow Norwegian immigrant Mads Sorenson in 1884 .

Early Tragedies and Suspicious Patterns

The couple opened a candy store, which mysteriously burned down, allowing them to collect insurance money. Their home also suffered a similar fate. Tragically, two of their children died under circumstances resembling poisoning, though officially attributed to acute colitis . In 1900, Mads died suddenly on the day his two life insurance policies overlapped, enabling Belle to collect both payouts....Read More

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