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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 (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 .
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).
Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who is believed to have murdered over 100 people in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901.
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]
His execution was the first in over six years and generated controversy. 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 ...
"FLDS men are no longer permitted to have children with their multiple wives. That privilege belongs to the seed bearer alone," the doctrine allegedly goes. SEE ALSO: Texas man faces life term for ...
George Chapman, hanged after murdering three common-law wives; Mary Ann Cotton, 19th-century woman who poisoned family members for financial gain; Maria Swanenburg, Dutch serial killer who murdered at least 27 and was suspected of killing more than 90 people; Thomas Neill Cream (d. 1892), British serial killer