Ew, Belle!

Send us Fan MailToday Tori gets to dive into a genre that we don’t usually cover, true crime. But this one hometown legend/villain which falls into our topic range, the infamous Belle Gunness. A Norwegian transplant to Chicago and then to Indiana, this woman left a trail of death and insurance fraud in her wake. The carnage and farm where she met her “end” is located in La Porte Indiana. We also find that Belle was not the first to commit murder on the property.  Krysti covers the defunct amusement park Rose Island and Charlestown State Park. Rose Island had all the amenities for it’s time (1923-1937) and was located on a peninsula named Devil’s Backbone. It began life as Fern Grove in the 1880s. One of the steamboats that would bring revelers to the island was the Idlewild which was renamed the Belle of Louisville which is still on the river to this day. The park didn’t survive the flood of the Ohio River in 1937. Krysti also reprises more legends of Cry Baby Bridge.  Our theme music: “Danse Macabre - Busy Strings"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Support the show