Lady Bluebeard. Family portrait from 1910. Bluebeard was a man who had been married several times but no one knew what had happened to his previous wives.
The defendant known by then as lady bluebeard showed no signs of feeling when the guilty verdict was read 23 hours later. What they found was a graveyard for murder victims and newspapers began calling her a bluebeard in skirts railroads ran special excursions to the gunness farm bringing morbidly curious. She was the youngest of eight children and her father was a poor stonemason.
Her criminal activities came to light in april 1908 when the gunness farmhouse in la porte indiana burned to the ground.
She was the youngest of eight children and her father was a poor stonemason. Bluebeard was a man who had been married several times but no one knew what had happened to his previous wives. A century later modern forensic scientists hope to solve once and for all what appears to have been a web of multiple murders deceit sex and money orchestrated by a woman dubbed lady bluebeard. It s the kind of thing you hope will stick to the storybook pages but for belle gunness victims that was not the case.