Legal History
New Tests in 1908 Murder Mystery: Did ‘Lady Bluebeard’ Kill Children, Too?
Posted May 14, 2008, 07:42 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
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.
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