SERA Films is planning a limited tv series chronicling the murderous life of La Porte's infamous serial killer, Belle Gunness. The series will be an adaptation of "Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men," by Harold Schechter. Locals are well aware of the story of how the Norwegian native lured and killed suitors and others including her children around the turn of the twentieth century, primarily for insurance money. She eventually set fire to her farmhouse and more or less disappeared, having been sighted various places over the next few decades, for the last time in 1931.