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Join historian Cathy Polovina as she follows her curiosity and explores "Old Weird America," to look a bit closer at a variety of adventurous, innovative, and unusual characters throughout American history.

Belle Gunness: The Female Serial Killer Who Got Away with Murder

Come hear the wild story of the first woman serial killer in America. Through personal ads, Belle Gunness lured a succession of lonely Norwegian bachelors to her isolated Indiana farm with the promise of work or even love— most of whom were never seen again. Just when she suspected she was about to be found out—her house burned down – and a woman’s headless body was found in the rubble. Was it Belle, or had the so-called Mistress of Murder Hill just moved on to work her deadly con-game elsewhere?