In 1931, a scream came from a house in downtown Los Angeles, a maid went out to buy kung fu, and found that her employer had rolled her eyes and foamed at home, even though the medical staff arrived quickly, but because the poisoning was too deep, coupled with the age, so on the way to the hospital, the old man had already died.
Fortunately, the case was solved very smoothly, and the police quickly locked the suspect, the old man's mistress Carlson. However, just after the photos of the trial were released in the United States, many people pointed at Carlson and exclaimed: Didn't she already die? As soon as this statement came out, it instantly ignited the American media, because in a sense, Carlson is completely the nightmare of all American men.
It turned out that Carlson's real name was Belle Janice. In 1908, a fire took the lives of their family, but strangely, after the fire was extinguished, in addition to the coke-like Bailey family, the search and rescue team found more than 30 bodies in the courtyard of the farm, ranging from the age of 8 to 45.
Through follow-up investigation, the police found that Bailey is not a harmless peasant woman at all, but a real demon, in order to deceive the insurance, she repeatedly killed her new husband, in just 3 years, gathered 250,000 US dollars, and this fire, is Bailey's crime again, but she "played" and burned herself in the farm.
Today, I will talk to you about how Bailey killed her husbands. And how did she "come back from the dead" and murder others again?
In fact, Belle was not a native American, and in 1859 she was born in a very remote small town in Norway. Her father was a famous stonemason, and her mother was not only a master farmer, but also a local horticultural master, and because of this, although the family was not rich, Belle's living conditions from childhood were definitely not bad.
Like other children who grew up on the farm, Belle developed a naïve personality, but an unexpected incident at the age of 18 completely changed her view of the world, and before that, she had a very failed love affair, and the man not only abandoned her, but also made her pregnant. At this time, Bai li was very entangled, she was reluctant to beat the child, nor did she dare to give birth to it privately, seeing that her stomach was getting bigger day by day, and Bai Li's mood became more and more unstable.
Perhaps to change her mood, one day in July 1877, Belle attended a ball when a man suddenly began verbally insulting Belle. It is reasonable to say that she is pregnant only to herself, but the man's insulting words are all right, which is undoubtedly a prick for Belle, as the contradictions accumulate deeper and deeper, the man later attacked Belle's abdomen, directly causing her to miscarry on the spot.
Belle didn't choose to swallow her anger, and she traveled to courts across Norway, hoping to be treated fairly. However, not only was no judge willing to take care of Belle, but her "notoriety" even spread to neighboring countries. After more than 2 years of fruitless petitioning, Bailey finally chose to give in, and at the same time, a seed of hatred was planted in her heart.
Because she was put on the "debauchery" hat, Bailey could not stay in her hometown anymore, and when she washed dishes in the restaurant, she would be deducted or fired by the boss for various reasons; even if she hid in an area hundreds of kilometers away from her hometown, she would be pointed out by sharp-eyed people.
In fact, Bailey gave up the accusation against the man at that time, firstly because of the low status of women at that time, and the second reason was because the man belonged to a prestigious family in Norway and had strong financial resources. Because of this, after the blow, making money became the most important thing in her life, and in 1881, at the age of 22, Bailey took a ferry to the United States and prepared to start a new life.
The pursuit of fresh excitement seems to be the characteristics of all men, and Bailey, who first arrived in the United States, not only did not suffer losses due to language barriers, but also won the favor of countless men because of her special looks. However, although Bailey has experienced setbacks at this time, her new life still makes her sunny, so in the face of the pursuit of a group of men, she finally chooses an honest duty, a security guard named Mades, to form a family and prepare to live a down-to-earth life.
Regrettably, perhaps because of a miscarriage, his and her husband's first child died before they were born, and even more tragically, Bailey's second child died after birth, and the third child was raised to the age of one, but left the world due to acute gastroenteritis.
This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Bailey, but fortunately, her husband was more shrewd and insured for each child, so even if Bailey was very miserable at that time, the financial compensation really "improved" her living conditions.
However, just a few years later, Mades died of a sudden heart attack, and this day was the day when Bailey's 2 insurance policies alternated between old and new. Because of this, she received double the payment, which was $8500. You know, even decades later, $8,500 is not a small amount, let alone the United States in the 19th century, but Bailey, who holds the money, is not happy.
In addition to the superficial reason that her husband's soul returned to the West, what made Bailey more concerned was the vicious comments about her from the outside world. As we just talked about, why did his husband die only on the alternating day between the old and new insurance? This is obviously too coincidental, at the same time, the local people even associated the early death of 3 children with Belle, thinking that she killed her own children in order to cheat on the insurance, plus Belle's "bad reputation" in Norway gradually introduced to the United States, so Belle was a complete demon in the eyes of Americans.
Perhaps everything Bailey suffered in this marriage is really because of bad luck, but the bad comments from the outside world have also made the seeds of hatred in her heart inevitably show signs of blossoming.
A few months later, Bailey came to Indiana with huge insurance compensation and bought a farm where she met her second husband, a butcher named Gunneth. Like Bailey, Gunneth is from Norway and has 2 daughters. Unfortunately, on the first anniversary of their marriage, Gunneth's daughter died suddenly, and a week later, Gunneth was cut off by a mechanical brake knife while doing farm work.
If everything that has been experienced before is a coincidence, then the situation where Bailey went, the strange death of her husband and children is undoubtedly too strange. Because of this, the police immediately launched an investigation into the case, and after testing Gunnis's body, the police deduced that Gunnis may have been hit by a chronic poison, and he eventually fell into the mechanical gate knife after experiencing the pain of bereavement.
At the same time, another daughter of Gunnis also said in an exchange with her classmates that it was her stepmother Belley who killed her father and sister, and she was careful to avoid the disaster. But just as the case was about to be finalized, a huge reversal took place.
In court, Gunnis's daughter suddenly changed her previous tone, saying that she would only "frame" her stepmother Belle in order to gain attention; and Belle cried to death in the face of the trial, and used her own experience to win the sympathy of the judge. In this way, because of insufficient evidence, Bailey was released in court, and the insurance compensation after Gunnis's death also fell firmly in Bailey's pocket.
If Bailey, who first arrived in the United States, hates men, but she still has a bottom line and a beautiful yearning for life; then Bailey has completely become a slave to money at this time, a "black widow" who cheats by killing her husband.
After being acquitted, Belle sent Gunnis's daughter to Los Angeles to study, while she continued to run the farm after giving birth to a child with her deceased husband, while she officially began her own "hunting". Bailey began to publish her marriage information in the newspaper, in which she described herself as a beautiful widow who could not run the farm alone, so she hoped that a man with the same conditions could start a family with me.
In fact, before this, Bailey's "bad reputation" has spread throughout the United States, however, perhaps the rich conditions of the farm have touched many men, or perhaps some people do not believe in evil at all, in short, just after Bailey published the marriage revelation, countless men threw olive branches to her.
In a bunch of "Diamond King Old Five", Bailey's favorite is a gentleman named Andrew, and in the two very fleshy letters, Andrew can also be said to be a mess of gentle conquest by the other party. Soon, he exchanged all his assets for heavy dollars and ran to the farm run by Bailey, where the two lived together.
Bailey was almost 50 years old at this time, so before marrying Andrew, she told the other party that this would be her last marriage, so she should buy insurance for the children first, and after making a will, she would discuss marriage. At this time, Andrew wanted to "hug the beauty", where to consider security issues, in the face of Bailey's suggestion, he said that everything was done according to the other party.
In July 1908, a fire burned Bailey's farm to the ground, and this time, her crime of murder was completely confirmed. Because just a week before the fire, bailey and Andrew had purchased several insurance plans that had just taken effect. In the face of boiling public opinion, the US police immediately launched an investigation, but just when the people thought that Bailey would eventually be punished by the law, the news that she herself was buried in the fire came out.
Even more surprising was that on the back hill of Bailey's farm, police found 30 bodies, including even an 8-year-old child, and in a later police investigation, it was found that Bailey had received more than 20 insurance benefits, and she had $250,000 in assets in 1905.
In fact, after the body of the Bailey family was found, some people questioned it, because Bailey has a height of 1 meter 7 and a weight of 91 kg, so the big head and the body at the scene of the fire are not at all right, even if the human body is burned to a certain extent, but the body found at the scene is completely a "small bean seedling", in the face of doubt, the police announced the closure of the case a month later, in fact, it is not because the police want to rest, but because they found Bailey's dentures at the scene, and the gold necklace she never left.
At the same time, the posture of male and female corpses at the time of death is also tightly embraced. Because there was no genetic testing technology at that time, when all the evidence pointed out that Belle had been burned, even if the body had many doubts, the outside world could only choose to believe the fact that Belle was dead.
On the other hand, since Bailey's death, there has never been a case of a man dying for no reason in the United States, and his wife receiving huge compensation, and this "black widow" who made money and killed has gradually become a nightmare in the memory of American men.
However, just over 20 years later, the public remembered the fear that Bailey had brought. In the poisoning case we first talked about, the police initially only handled it as a case, but some elderly men insisted that the suspect was Bailey. It turned out that they were the diamond kings who chased Belle and could not do it, so they were familiar with Belle's appearance characteristics, and at the same time, the professional department came to the conclusion that they were almost the same person after comparison.
Faced with such a situation, the court immediately prepared to open a second interrogation of the suspect, but coincidentally, just 3 days before the law enforcement officers went to prison for interrogation, the suspect had died of a sudden heart attack, and her body had been cremated.
So far, Bailey's case has become a mystery in the minds of Americans, and whether she died in the fire in 1908? On this issue, the United States even spawned two civil society groups, one of which believed that Bailey did not "come back from the dead" because all the evidence except that the body did not match showed that she had paid the price in the fire.
The other faction believes that Bailey, who weighs 91 kilograms, is fully capable of subduing men, as exemplified by the more than 30 corpses on the hill behind the farm, so she can also kill a man and a woman, and use the two as stand-ins before setting fire, and pose as a hug. Because bailey purchased insurance that was completely confidential to the insured's information, there was no way to know whether she was at large after taking the money.
In Bailey's lifetime, there were 28 recorded murders, the vast majority of whom were men who were willing to marry her and write her as an insurance beneficiary, and among these victims, only a man named George managed to escape, but he was put in a mental hospital after leaving Bailey, so there was no help in the case.
Today, an american institution still retains the ashes of the suspect in the 1931 poisoning case, but because of the lack of original information, even if the ashes are DNA-identified, there is no reference to prove Bailey's identity, and because of this, Bailey's series of news has completely become a suspense case.