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Title	Belle Gunness
Alternative Title	Gunness, Belle
Genre	Legend
Description	Anna Coffey's transcribed interview of Phil Coffey's account of the story of Belle Gunness. Belle Gunness was one of America's first known female serial killers. She married men and killed them for insurance money.
Informant	Coffey, Phil
Collector	Coffey, Anna
Date of Original	2009-09-24
Contextual Information	The informant is the collector's father. See motif E431.18. Body cut up and buried in vessels, buried in bag.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- LaPorte County -- 2009
Subject	Serial murderers -- Indiana Homicides -- Indiana Women Dismemberment
WV3 Subject	Folklore Famous people
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-03-17
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf- Belle Gunness001

Belle Gunness

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