John Moe

In the agricultural heartland of LaPorte County, Indiana, the story of a man named John Moe serves as a chilling chapter in one of the nation's most infamous true crime sagas. A Norwegian immigrant who had settled in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, Moe was lured to the seemingly idyllic farm of Belle Gunness in 1906. Gunness, a fellow Norwegian immigrant, was a widow who utilized matrimonial advertisements in Scandinavian-language newspapers to entice lonely, middle-aged men of means to her property. Moe ...