Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March 1908, Asle Helgelien, a South Dakota farmer worried about his missing brother, wrote to Belle Gunness, who had a farm ...

For lonely bachelors in early 1900s America, a matrimonial ad from a prosperous Indiana widow seemed like the chance of a lifetime. “Comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts ...