A few months ago, we reported that Belle Gunness, the Chicago candy store owner-turned Indiana serial killer, was exhumed from her grave due to suspicions that it wasn’t really her inside of it – many people doubted that she had cut off her own head and hidden it where it would never be found before Read More…
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Strangers With Candy
Lately, every bit of research I do leads me to some candy store or another. Here are some spooky candy shops (mostly long gone, of course) of Chicago: 1. Frank Wilde’s Fruit and Candy Store – Milwaukee Ave. Though different addresses were given for this place, I’m reasonably confident I’ve figured out where it was Read More…
Belle Gunness Update!
Rich Vitton of the Forest Park Historical Society has sent us an update on Belle Gunness, the murderess about whom we blogged earlier in the week. Belle, if you’ll recall, was exhumed from her resting place at a cemetery in Forest Park to see if the headless corpse was actually hers. According to Andrea Simmons, Read More…
Rising from the Suburbs….Belle Gunness!
Belle Gunness, the female blue beard, has finally been dug up. We usually think of Gunnesss as an Indiana serial killer; we have plenty of our own around here, so we don’t mind letting them have this one. Sort of throwing them a bone, if you will. It was in Indiana that Belle set up Read More…