Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Belle Gunness, Black Widows of Liverpool, Black Widow Murders, Eva Coo, Frances Newton, H. H. Holmes, Janie Lou Gibbs, Judy Buenoano, Lyda Southard, Maria Swanenburg, Mary Ann Cotton, Mary Ansell, Mary Elizabeth Wilson, Nannie Doss, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, Ruth Snyder, Stella Nickell, Teresa Lewis. Excerpt: Belle Sorenson Gunness (born as Brynhild Paulsdatter Storseth; November 11, 1859, Selbu, Norway - April 28, 1908?, La Porte, Indiana) was a Norwegian-American serial killer. Standing six feet tall (183 cm)tall and weighing over 200 pounds (91 kg), she was a physically strong woman. She killed most of her suitors and boyfriends, and her two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy. She may also have killed both of her husbands and all of her children, on different occasions. Her apparent motives involved collecting life insurance, cash and other valuables, and eliminating witnesses. Reports estimate that she killed between 25 and 40 people over several decades. Gunness' origins are a matter of some debate. Most of her biographers state that she was born on November 11, 1859, near the lake of Selbu, Sor-Trondelag, Norway, and christened Brynhild Paulsdatter Storset. Her parents were Paul Pedersen Storset (a stonemason) and Berit Olsdatter. She was the youngest of their eight children. They lived at Storsetgjerdet, a very small cotter's farm in Innbygda, 60 km southeast of Trondheim, the largest city in central Norway (Trondelag). An Irish TV documentary by Anne Berit Vestby aired on September 4, 2006, tells a common, but unverified, story about Gunness' early life. The story holds that, in 1877, Gunness attended a country dance while pregnant. There she was attacked by a man who kicked her in the abdomen, causing her to miscarry the child. The man, who came from a rich family, was never prosecuted by the Norwegian...