It is still uncertain whether Belle Gunness committed the murders for money and property, or whether she was affected by the circumstances of her life. It wasn’t for nothing that Belle was known as the Black Widow after the species of spider that eats it own mate. She would give out matrimonial ads for partners, marry these men, adopt their children (if any) and ask them to shift to her house in La Porte. Once they were there, she would drug them and slaughter them in the same fashion as she would her pigs. She would them bury them in the land around her farm. This continued for several years before, in 1908, her farm was reduced to ashes by a fire. It is believed that Bell Gunness died in this fire. It was in the aftermath of the fire, that many of the severely butchered bodies were discovered which led to her being included in this list of famous serial killers in history.