My Victorian Nightmare

Ep. 40 - The Blackest Black Widow

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On today’s episode, Genevieve will discuss the all-female Victorian gang, the 40 Elephants, as well as the thieving, poisoning, barbarous, butchering Belle Gunness: Hell’s Belle herself. 

References for today’s show:

  • https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/triflers-need-not-apply-the-story-of-deadly-belle-gunness
  • https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/11/30/belle-gunness-queen-of-black-widows-murdered-dozens-and-planted-victims-around-farm/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gunness
  • https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/gunness/index_1.html
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-100-year-mystery-of-lady-bluebeard/
  • https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khlysty 
  • https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm
  • “A Headless Ghost in Buckinghamshire” - The Illustrated Police News, January 8th, 1898.

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