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HELL'S PRINCESS: THE MYSTERY OF BELLE GUNNESS, BUTCHER OF MEN By: Harold Schechter
Little A
April 2018
On Sale: April 1, 2018
316 pages ISBN: 1477808957 EAN: 9781477808955 Kindle: B06XFS39KS Hardcover / e-Book
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In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana βmurder farm.β Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadnβt merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. Theyβd been butchered. Hellβs Princess is a riveting account of one of the most sensational killing sprees in the annals of American crime: the shocking series of murders committed by the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard. The only definitive book on this notorious case and the first to reveal previously unknown information about its subject, Harold Schechterβs gripping, suspenseful narrative has all the elements of a classic mysteryβand all the gruesome twists of a nightmare.
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