True Crime Stories

Keeping in line with my last case, this is another older case.  The difference between this and the last is that this case is more infamous than the other case, however, there remains conflicting information throughout the story.  In a way this one is more difficult to determine just what the true facts are because of its "popularity." In fact, I have made more than one attempt to pull all of the information together in attempts to make it as accurate as I can make it, as well as less difficult to follow.   Belle was born (more than likely anyway) in 1859 in Norway. Although I have an actual date of November 11, 1859, that date is in dispute.  Belle grew to be a rather large woman apparently.  Reports say she was 6 foot tall and weighed anywhere from 200 to 280 pounds. She was officially declared dead on April 28, 1908 in LaPorte Indiana.  Even her death has been in question. Whether she actually died on her farm that day or she escaped and...

Obviously the fact that I compose this blog based on true crime stories tells you that I am fascinated by them.  I am especially interested in stories I have not heard of and those that have been lost to history. Recently I have read several books that entail crimes from the late 1800's and early turn of the century crimes. I am currently reading "Psycho USA" by Harold Schecter.  Prior to this I read another of his books based on a woman serial killer, Jane Topper who poison her victims in the late 1800's.  Psycho USA is a book to show us that "The Good Ole Days" never really existed and that crimes ranging from Columbine to The Oklahoma City Bombing and people such as Susan Smith and Andrea Yates are not even close to being new. Schecter asked a curious question.  Why is it that we can remember the Halls/Mills murder but not the LeBoeuf/Dreher crime. Why is it we can remember names like Leopold and Loeb from the early 1900's but not the names of  St...