Lady Bluebeard. Brynhild paulsdatter storset belle gunness was born in selbu norway on november 11 1859 and moved to the united states in 1881. The story of lyda southard also known as lady bluebeard is full of twists and turns and you won t believe it happened right here in idaho.
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William charles anderson lady bluebeard the true story of love and marriage death and flypaper fred pruett books 1994. What they found was a graveyard for murder victims and newspapers began calling her a bluebeard in skirts railroads ran special excursions to the gunness farm bringing morbidly curious. It s the kind of thing you hope will stick to the storybook pages but for belle gunness victims that was not the case.
Her criminal activities came to light in april 1908 when the gunness farmhouse in la porte indiana burned to the ground.
Just as unlikely was the method she devised to dispatch her victims. Bluebeard was a man who had been married several times but no one knew what had happened to his previous wives. She was the youngest of eight children and her father was a poor stonemason. A century later modern forensic scientists hope to solve once and for all what appears to have been a web of multiple murders deceit sex and money orchestrated by a woman dubbed lady bluebeard.
