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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 ...
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 ...
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)
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?
For years, she was known only as "Jane Doe #6." Her partial remains were found in Manorville, Long Island in 2000, and more of her remains were found on Gilgo Beach more than 10 years later ...
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 ...
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 ...