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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.
Nannie Doss confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, sister, two of her children, two of her grandsons, and a mother-in-law over a 27-year killing spree
Between 1927 and 1954, Nannie Doss fatally poisoned four of her husbands, two of her children, her mother, one of her mothers-in-law, and two of her grandsons. She received the nickname "The Giggling Granny" because she seemed to giggle when she confessed to the murders.
A lonely hearts killer (also called want-ad killer) is a criminal who commits murder by contacting a victim who has either posted advertisements to or answered advertisements via newspaper classified ads and personal or lonely hearts ads. [1]
Self-confessed serial killer Tamara Samsonova, 68, may have experimented with cannibalism as she brutally murdered each of her 11 victims. Over two decades, the senior woman beheaded and ...
Lorraine Warren and her late husband, Ed, have investigated hauntings for decades. They have probed some of the world's most notorious haunted sites including the New York murder scene depicted in ...
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]
A Texas woman accused of murdering her grandmother said she was suffering from psychosis when she beat the victim with a hammer. Now, a San Antonio judge is deciding her fate.