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9 Marriage License of Anthon [sic] Sorenson and Bella Peterson, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. For unexplained reasons, the certificate shows Bella’s age as twenty-nine and Mads’s age as thirty-four. For the Rev. Torgersen’s obituary, see «Cupid’s Noted Aid Dead», Chicago Daily Tribune, November 12, 1905, p. 8.

10 Langlois, p. 4.

11 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 7, 1908, p. 1.

12 Ibid.

13 Chicago Daily Journal, May 8, 1908, p. 1.

14 Langlois, p. 77.

15 Chicago Examiner, May 6, 1908, p. 2.

16 Chicago Tribune, May 7, 1908, p. 2.

17 Ibid.

18 Ann Jones, Women Who Kill (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1980), p. 137; La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 7, 1908, p. 1. Previous sources say that the Sorensons bought the Alma Street property in 1896. Records show, however, that it was purchased in September 1895. Moreover, Bella is listed as sole owner of the property. See tract book, vol. 106A, p. 196, Cook County Recorder of Deeds, Chicago, IL.

19 Caroline was born in March 1896; Myrtle on February 6, 1897; Axel in January 1898; and Lucy on Christmas Day, 1898.

20 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 6, 1908, p. 2.

21 By contrast, the US infant mortality rate in 2015 was fewer than six deaths for every one thousand live births. The causes of death for Caroline and Axel can be found in the official Records of Interments at the Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

22 «Sorenson et al. vs. Yukon Mining & Trading Company, Bill in Chancery, Filed June 3, 1898, Circuit Court of Cook County», on file at the Circuit Court Archives, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.

23 «Bella Sorenson et al. vs. Yukon Mining & Trading Company et al., Notice, Motion, and Affidavits of Hogenson, Anderson, & Rosenberg, Filed June 16, 1898, in Circuit Court, Cook County», on file at the Circuit Court Archives, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.

24 «Bella Sorenson et al. vs. Yukon Mining & Trading Company et al., Copy of Decree», on file at the Circuit Court Archives, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.

25 Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1900, p. 1.

26 Chicago Daily Journal, May 8, 1908, p. 2; Chicago Tribune, May 8, 1908, p. 2; Record of Interments, August 1900, Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

27 Chicago Inter Ocean, May 7, 1908, p. 3.

28 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, May 7, 1908, p. 1.

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1 Langlois, pp. 34–36.

2 Chicago Daily News, May 9, 1908, p. 1.

3 Indianapolis News, May 9, 1908, p. 4; Sylvia Shepherd, The Mistress of Murder Hill: The Serial Killings of Belle Gunness (Bloomington, IN: 1stBooks Library, 2001), p. 17.

4 Langlois, pp. 37–40.

5 Ibid., p. 37.

6 Lillian de la Torre, The Truth About Belle Gunness (New York: Fawcett/Gold Medal Books, 1955), p. 13.

7 See Duluth News-Tribune, May 13, 1908, p. 2, and Chicago Daily Journal, May 9, 1908, p. 1.

8 «Indiana’s Murder Farm», Harper’s Weekly, Vol. LII, No. 268 (May 30, 1908), p. 23.

9 Records of Interments, August 1902, Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

10 Albert Nicholson’s recollections were transcribed on July 28, 1951. The typescript is filed in the archives of the La Porte County Historical Society, as is the full transcript of the coroner’s inquest held on December 17, 1902, which contains the testimony of both Swan Nicholson and Jennie Gunness. See also de la Torre, pp. 41–45.

11 Fort Wayne Daily News, December 1, 1902, pp. 1 and 2, and December 4, 1902, p. 1. Also see La Porte Argus-Bulletin, December 16, 1902, p. 1, and December 17, 1902, p. 1.

12 Bowell’s postmortem report is contained in the transcript of the coroner’s inquest, December 17, 1902, filed in the archives of the La Porte County Historical Society.

13 La Porte Argus-Bulletin, December 19, 1902, p. 1.

14 Langlois, p. 108.

15 de la Torre, p. 45.

16 Ibid.

17 Coroner’s inquest, archives of the La Porte County Historical Society.

18 de la Torre, p. 45.

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1 Langlois, pp. 56–57.

2 Duluth News-Tribune, May 13, 1908, p. 2.

3 Langlois, pp. 45–48.

4 Ibid., pp. 49–50.

5 Langlois, p. 58.

6 Ibid., pp. 60, 61–62, and 66–67. See also Stuart Holbrook, Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America (New York: Macmillan, 1941), p. 127.

7 Shepherd, p. 69.

8 Decatur Herald, May 23, 1908, p. 1.