The theory is that she planted a headless body so people would assume it was her, then set the fire herself. She’d killed her own children before, so it’s not too hard to believe she’d do it again. I couldn’t fit her whole story here, but it’s pretty gruesome. Worth a look, if you have the stomach.
It really is but given the time and the rights and freedoms... Understandable. A smart woman is a smart woman. Not saying what she did was right but she knew how to take advantage in a man's world.
This is kind where I fall, too. Women had so few opportunities, it’s hard to blame the ones who gamed the system. I love that she might have done all this and escaped into a wealthy life somewhere… BUT, she killed a fair number of children along the way so it’s impossible to truly root for her. It’s like really🤦♀️
Oh no. Not the children! I am still haunted by the baby farmers of the 19th century. At least 3 of the murderous ones were caught and executed but it's a whole miserable situation. Victorians said having a baby out of wedlock was the WORST so single mothers send them to older ladies who care for them in exchange for money. They didn't see their kid again so it didn't matter who lived or died. Some of those baby farmers were monsters.
It's just not working out
But you and I will stay close
Just like all the others
So creepy…. Especially since her farmhand claimed she fed her murdered lovers to her pigs.
I imagined them buried in the yard but that works too
Belle Gunness? Eww. Yuck!
Not even after 20…
…frothy Guinness beers
😂 Ironically, men agreed to marry her because she had money🍻
Belle Gunned rode dicks
What else could a woman do?
Get the bag and die
I mean fair, it was a man’s world back then. She rode them hard and retired them early, she knew the game🖤
Gunness*
A red skull on black widow’s body
But no head to see her kin;
Cut off in a doorway not opening
When house burned bones
Clueless corpse tells no tales.
Ooo very chilling🖤
Creepier than usual.
Ah a notorious black widow. I am liking your haiku approach, might just replicate the tune Honeygloom
Oo go for it!
If she did escape, it doesn't seem that the evidence shows it. Not many people survived a house burning down with them in it then.
The theory is that she planted a headless body so people would assume it was her, then set the fire herself. She’d killed her own children before, so it’s not too hard to believe she’d do it again. I couldn’t fit her whole story here, but it’s pretty gruesome. Worth a look, if you have the stomach.
Oh dear.
Her story is bonkers.
It really is but given the time and the rights and freedoms... Understandable. A smart woman is a smart woman. Not saying what she did was right but she knew how to take advantage in a man's world.
This is kind where I fall, too. Women had so few opportunities, it’s hard to blame the ones who gamed the system. I love that she might have done all this and escaped into a wealthy life somewhere… BUT, she killed a fair number of children along the way so it’s impossible to truly root for her. It’s like really🤦♀️
Oh no. Not the children! I am still haunted by the baby farmers of the 19th century. At least 3 of the murderous ones were caught and executed but it's a whole miserable situation. Victorians said having a baby out of wedlock was the WORST so single mothers send them to older ladies who care for them in exchange for money. They didn't see their kid again so it didn't matter who lived or died. Some of those baby farmers were monsters.
Oh my god I know! Being a woman back then must have been so traumatic. Amelia Dyer is the one i immediately think of, absolute monster.
Yup. The worst of them all
Ashes hold secrets,
Headless body in the flames,
Belle’s dark tale remains.