New Tests in 1908 Murder Mystery: Did 'Lady Bluebeard' Kill Children, Too?
It looks like Belle Gunness, in addition to luring lonely men to her hillltop Indiana farm in the early 1900s and murdering and dismembering them, may have killed children there, too, according to an attorney-turned-forensic anthropologist.
Although DNA test results are still awaited, attorney Andrea Simmons, who is leading a team of University of Indianapolis researchers investigating the suspected Gunness serial killings, says bones they have unearthed so far suggest that Gunness may have murdered not only the three children in her own family but others, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The woman known locally as a “Lady Bluebeard” is now thought to have murdered as many as 30 men, women and children, the newspaper reports.
Originally thought to have died in a fire in her farmhouse on April 28, 1908, Gunness is now believed by a number of people to have escaped to California—where a woman thought to be Gunness died as she was awaiting trial in a poisoning case.
More details about Simmons’ investigation of Gunness and the serial killings of which she is suspected are discussed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post.
