A mountain of evidence confirmed their guilt, including a 16-minute tape of them torturing one of their victims. They were caught in October 1965 and both sentenced to life imprisonment (narrowly missing the death penalty due it to being abolished the same year). The killers regularly returned to the burial sites to pose for photographs. Myra HindleyĪlong with her partner Ian Brady, Myra Hindley was one half of the infamous Moors Murderers from Manchester, UK.īetween 19, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted and killed a total of five children or teenagers, stabbing or strangling them and then burying their bodies on the Manchester moors. In 1908, one of Gunness's farmhands revealed that the whole arson incident had been planned and Gunness had fled with her money. Mysteriously, Gunness vanished, never to be heard from again.

It was only after her farmhouse burnt down that authorities discovered the bodies of 40 men and children. Once there, she would take their money and kill them. Gunness began posting lonely hearts columns in local magazines to entice men to her farmhouse. A second husband followed, along with a baby daughter, both of whom suffered the same fate.

In 1884, Gunness married her first husband, and very quickly he died of heart failure. Gunness was a Norwegian immigrant who came to America in 1881 in search of wealth. 'Hell's Belle', Belle Gunness was a violent murderer who may have slain a total of around 40 people, including her husbands and children, up and down Illinois and Indiana.

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