DNA to Decide if Headless Killer Faked Her Death


	DNA to Decide if Headless Killer Faked Her Death

tabsey

1-11-2008 2:33 AM

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tabsey says:

Love the headline. Brings to mind the headless horsemen of 17th century english literature.

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Police found the headless body of Belle "the Black Widow" Gunness, perhaps the most infamous female serial killer in history, in the basement of her burned-out Indiana farmhouse in 1908.
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Yet nearly 100 years after the killer's corpse was buried, no one is certain that it belongs to Gunness; many think <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080110-belle-gunnes-kids-02.jpg&cap=Belle+Gunness%2C+proclaimed+as+recent+history%27s+most+prolific+female+serial+killer%2C+sits+with+her+children+Lucy%2C+Myrtle+and+Phillip+in+this+undated+photo.+She+is+suspected+of+having+killed+more+than+40+people+in+less+than+a+decade.+Credit:+La+Porte+County+Historical+Society&title=DNA+to+Decide+if+Headless+Killer+Faked+Her+Death&title=DNA%20to%20Decide%20if%20Headless%20Killer%20Faked%20Her%20Death">the Norwegian immigrant</A>  faked her own death and fled to California to continue her killing streak for another 23 years.
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To put the mystery to rest, University of Indianapolis researchers are comparing DNA from the now-exhumed body to cells stuck to letters that Gunness sent to cash-heavy male suitors — all of whom probably ended up buried behind the house, said <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080110-andrea-simmons-02.jpg&cap=In+the+University+of+Indianapolis+Archeology+and+Forensics+Laboratory%2C+graduate+student+Andrea+Simmons+examines+x-rays+of+a+skull+found+on+the+property+of+Belle+Gunness%2C+a+notorious+serial+killer+of+the+1900s.+Credit:+Scott+Hall%2C+University+of+Indianapolis&title=DNA+to+Decide+if+Headless+Killer+Faked+Her+Death&title=DNA%20to%20Decide%20if%20Headless%20Killer%20Faked%20Her%20Death">Andrea Simmons</A>, a graduate student in human biology leading the forensic investigation.
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"Gunness has got to be the most prolific female serial killer in history," Simmons told <EM>LiveScience</EM>. "She clearly killed 25 people, arguably 40, in less than a decade but we're not sure when she died. We're trying to put a lid on this case."
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