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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 kids, 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 fact from Nannie Doss appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 December 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?
"Lady Blue Beard" – Nannie Doss "Lady Death" – Daisy de Melker "Lady Dracula" – Elizabeth Báthory "Lady Killer" – Ricardo Caputo "Lainz Angels of Death" – Group of Austrian killers active in 1983–1989 "Lake Elsinore Killer" – William Suff "Lambeth Poisoner" – Thomas Neill Cream
Nannie Doss – Female serial killer who died of Leukemia while incarcerated in the Penitentiary. Karl Myers - murderer and suspected serial killer who was given two death sentences for the sexually-motivated murders of two women killed in 1993 and 1996. Died on December 28, 2012, from natural causes.
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)
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