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Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard. [2] Doss finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, after her fifth husband died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her mother ...
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.
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]
Ashley's slaying of her husband was nicknamed "The Black Swan Case" because of her history as a ballet dancer. In the film Black Swan , released in 2010, Natalie Portman stars as a ballerina who ...
“The Killer Inside,” the new Lifetime movie, tells the shocking tale of Ruth Finley, whose stalker in Wichita, Kansas winds up being closer to home than expected.
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
A Kentucky woman police say killed her husband and sister before being shot and killed by her brother last week suffered with mental health problems, according to a court motion filed nearly 15 ...