Belle was a serial killer, one of many in history and to date. I note that she was a butcher of men, not the butcher of men or even the title without an article. His gruesome page-turner, grounded in meticulous historical research, confirms his reputation as one of the top true-crime writers of our time. Hell’s Princess by Harold Schechter is the well-researched story of the mystery of Belle Gunness, a butcher of men. “ Hell’s Princess takes its place among Schechter’s other true-crime classics as the definitive rendering of one of the most beguiling and brutal of all female serial killers. The only definitive book on this notorious case and the first to reveal previously unknown information about its subject, Harold Schechter’s gripping, suspenseful narrative has all the elements of a classic mystery-and all the gruesome twists of a nightmare.
Hell’s 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. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn’t merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. Between 19, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm.” Some were hired hands. 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. In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone.
The chilling true account of one of the twentieth century’s most prolific female serial killers. HAROLD SCHECHTER, author of Hell's Princess : The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men SARAH HOROWITZ WIDOW THE SCANDAL THAT SHOOK PARIS AND THE WOMAN. The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
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