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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Growing up in La Porte, Ind., Andrea Simmons couldn't help hearing tales of the city's most notorious former resident, a so-called \"black widow\" and \"Lady Bluebeard\" who amassed a fortune during a devious campaign of arson and murder at the turn of the 20th century. One theory suggests [Belle Gunness] fled to California, assumed a new identity and later was charged with similar crimes. If the body exhumed in Illinois turns out not to be Gunness, Simmons' investigation may take her to the West Coast to seek samples from that murderer's grave, or from the grave of Gunness' sister, who suspiciously moved there from the Midwest after Gunness' death or disappearance. Meanwhile, in the LaPorte area, plans are being made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gunness house fire. Simmons is serving on a committee that is planning a spring lecture series and raising money to place headstones on the graves of some of Belle's victims. Simmons will speak about her work on April 12. A graveside service for the Gunness children and a reception at the La Porte County Historical Society Museum are scheduled for April 26.

Auctioneer Tim Richards found the skeleton among furniture and boxed items he collected from New Castle for the auction. The bones had apparently been someone's macabre decoration. \"'You won't believe what I found,'\" Anita Mattingly, his fiancee, said he told her.

As news of [Belle Gunness]'s horrors spread, tens of thousands of people flocked to \"murder farm,\" where authorities put the parts of Gunness's victims on display. [Ray Lamphere] and Gunness traveled to Chicago a few days before the fire to find a body double. They brought back a \"housekeeper,\" and Gunness killed and decapitated her, Lamphere allegedly said. [Andrea Simmons] has another backup plan in case there's a glitch extracting DNA from Gunness's century-old envelopes. She hopes to get DNA from a bone of Nellie Larson, Gunness's sister.

\"Most of our state codes are built on national models,\" said [Andrea Simmons], who worked with the Legislature on Senate Bill 79. \"There's nothing out there to model this on, so we're really breaking ground here.\" \"We're really trying to work with architects and designers and our new energy stakeholders, which haven't been a traditional stakeholder group,\" [Aeron Teverbaugh] said. \"Getting those varied interests to work within a statutory framework will be a challenge. But that's not to say it can't be done. A new code is always fraught with the unforeseen.\" \"Just because it's new doesn't necessarily mean it's good,\" [Tom Payne] said. \"With this code, I'm trying to think about the building as a whole and if the technologies we're using are robust and durable. There's a natural skepticism by builders to adopt new technologies that are different because of the cost of changing them if they turn out not to work.\"

Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, said the National Information Assurance Strategy harked back to the mid-1980s. \"It is full of consultant-speak, recycling tired old ideas. It is mind-candy.\"

  \"Yes, a lot more,\" [Kathryn Thraser] said. \"Now they want you to stay with us because they don't want to convert them to full-time employees. They call them projects. More and more people are doing projects because they don't want to pay taxes or unemployment. They don't feel like they are jumping in the lake, so to speak.\" \"Marion County is hurting pretty bad,\" Thraser said. \"Most of the people I'm putting to work are going to Gainesville. They're commuting because they want a job. The problem with Marion County is we have so many general labor people, light industrial people and there's no work.\" \"We haven't heard of any closings or any negative factors that's going to cause us to take a big dip,\" [Rusty Skinner] said. \"If we're bleeding, it's from nicks, not gashes.\"

State Journal photo/Carolyn Pflasterer Above: [Don Gadzinski], of Manitowoc, left, [Andrea Simmons], of Madison, and Blanche Jindra, of Manitowoc, take a break from shopping Friday afternoon at West Towne Mall. Gadzinski said he used to be a procrastinor but now he does his Christmas shopping early. Below: Karsten Beatty, 6, of Black Earth, does a lettle light reading while her family shops at West Towne Mall. Her dad, [Randy Beatty], was resting on a nearby bench waiting for an afternoon movie.

The home and community care program, administered by the ACT Department of Health, provided \"some level of support\" about 10 hours of care but people with a significant disability relied on Disability ACT, within ACT Government, to provide an individual support package. [...]a package [of care] is available, they'll remain and receive care and support in hospital, and we'll continue to work with the disability providers and housing people ... but we don't have control over that.\"

Early Monday morning, the couple had been arguing, said Officer Terry Robey, county police spokesman. [Frank E. Simmons], 46, pointed a pistol at [Andrea Dora Simmons]' 14-year-old son from a previous relationship and at the couple's 12-year-old son, Robey said. [Claire Glase], the next-door neighbor, said her family had had disagreements with the Simmonses over the Simmonses' large dog, which she said kept her family awake at night with its barking. Glase said her son, a construction worker, once threw something into the Simmonses' yard to silence the dog and \"Mr. Simmons grabbed my son and bloodied his nose.\"

Shirley V. Lux, 88, died at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday in LaPorte Hospital.