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Nannie Doss (born Nancy Hazel, November 4, 1905 – June 2, 1965) was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between 1927 and 1954. [1] Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny , the Lonely Hearts Killer , the Black Widow , and Lady Blue Beard .
A Life of Murder. Doss had five husbands throughout her life, first marrying at the encouragement of her father when she was 16 years old, according to the Phoenix.She and her first husband ...
Nannie Doss (1905–1965) – known as "The Lonely Hearts Killer", among other names; Amelia Dyer (1836–1896) – known as "The Ogress of Reading" Raymond Fernandez (1914–1951) and Martha Beck (1920–1951) – known as "The Honeymoon Killers" and "The Lonely Hearts Killers" [4] Albert Fish (1870–1936)
Bertha Alice Williams Graham Gifford (October 30, 1871 – August 20, 1951) [1] was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused of murdering three members of the local community and suspected in 15 additional deaths. [2]
She was also suspected in the murder of her father, her mother-in-law, and her first husband, as well as the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. She was sentenced to death in 1991. In 1955, bar hostess Ruth Ellis fatally shot her boyfriend, David Blakey, after he punched her in the stomach, causing a miscarriage. She was the last ...
The Family Nobody Wanted is a 1954 memoir by Helen Doss (née Grigsby). It retells the story of how Doss and her husband Carl, a Methodist minister, adopted twelve children of various ethnic backgrounds (White Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American).
Attorneys gave opening statements in the murder trial of Richard Aguirre, 59, who prosecutors allege beat and strangled 27-year-old Ruby Doss and left her body in an industrial area near East ...
A Wedding is a 1978 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman, with an ensemble cast that includes Desi Arnaz, Jr., Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Vittorio Gassman, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Nina Van Pallandt, Amy Stryker, and Pat McCormick. [3]