Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March 1908, Asle Helgelien, a South Dakota farmer worried about his missing brother, wrote to Belle Gunness, who had a farm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This colorized photo from around 1908 shows Belle Gunness and three of her children. On April 27, 1908, her LaPorte farmhouse ...

For lonely bachelors in early 1900s America, a matrimonial ad from a prosperous Indiana widow seemed like the chance of a lifetime. “Comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts ...

“Letters of the Lovelorn” murderer Belle Gunness is credited with the murders of at least 14 people, with speculation that the body count could be more than double what’s been recorded. The Northwest ...

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

A Norwegian woman living in the United States went missing shortly after several bodies were found carved and buried on her property in 1908. Belle Gunness, who immigrated to Chicago when she was 21 ...

The “eye-catching” movie poster promotions for a feature film detailing the rural LaPorte murders committed at the turn-of-the-century by black widow Belle Gunness have been floating around for nearly ...

In his movie script, “The Farm,” Mike Bernacchi has brought his grandfather, Angelo Bernacchi, back to life. Mike is also digging up the woman who may have had designs on killing his grandfather when ...

By all outward appearances, Belle Gunness had a hard lot in life. Born on a farm in Norway, she emigrated to the United States in 1881 when she was 22 and settled in Chicago, where she met her first ...

MICHIGAN CITY — The new animated feature film “Belle, The Murder Musical” receives its local premiere screening at 2 p.m. CDT Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Michigan City Public Library, 100 E. Fourth St.

SOUTH BEND — The History Museum presents the lecture “The Story of Belle Gunness” at 2 p.m. March 17 at 897 Thomas St. LaPorte County Historian Bruce Johnson will talk about what happened when the ...