Belle Gunness was born in Norway in the 1850s. Three decades later she moved to Chicago and started a family and business with her first husband. Tragically, their house and business mysteriously burned. The family collected the insurance money and moved to Texas. While living outside of Austin, Belle's family members began dying off one by one, in the strangest of circumstances. Then another house burned down. It seemed bad luck, in the form of death and fires, followed Belle wherever she went. Especially when she arrived in La Porte, Indiana, at the turn of the 20th century.