Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation, search Nannie Doss minimise information Birth name Nancy Hazle Also known as The Giggling Nanny, The Giggling Granny, The Jolly Black Widow, The L unityly Hearts Killer Born (1905-11-04)November 4, 1905 Blue Mountain, Alabama, United States Died June 2, 1965(1965-06-02) (aged 59) run of death Leukemia Penalty Life shackles Killings Number of victims 11 Country United States State(s) Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, OklahomaDate apprehended October, 1954 Nannie Doss (November 4, 19051 June 2, 19652) was a in series(p) killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between the 1920s and 1954. 3 She finally confessed to the removes in October 1954, by and by her fifth husband died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it was revealed that she had killed 4 husbands, 2 children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson, and a nephew. Contentshide * 1 Early life * 2 First marriage * 3 jiffy marriage * 3 . 1 Grandchildren * 3. Death of Frank * 4 Third marriage * 5 Fourth marriage * 6 Fifth marriage * 7 exculpation and conviction * 8 References * 9 External cerebrate edit Early life Doss was born in Blue Mountain, Alabama as Nancy Hazle to Lou and James Hazle. Nannie was one of five children she had one brother and three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a controlling flummox and husband with a nasty streak. There is manifest that Doss was conceived illegitimately, as James and Lou get married after 1905 census records besides show that in 1905 she and her mother were living on their own. 4 She had an unhappy childhood.She was a suffering student who never learned to read well her education was erratic because her father forced his children to work on the family farm instead of attending school. When she was rough 7 years old, the family was taking a train to visit relatives in southern Alabama when the train stopped suddenly, Nannie hit her head on the admixture bar on the seat in front of her. For years after, she suffered severe headaches, blackouts and depression she blamed these and her mental instability on that accident. During childhood, her favorite hobby was see her mothers romance magazines and dreaming of her own romantic future.Later, her favorite part was the lonely hearts column. The Hazle sisters teenage years were restricted by their father he forbade them to put one over makeup and attractive clothing. He was trying to prevent them from being molested by men, tho that happened on several occasions. He also forbade them to go to dances and other hearty events. edit First marriage Doss was first married at age 16, to Charley Braggs. They had met at the Linen Thread factory where they both worked, and with her fathers approval they married after 4 months of dating.He was the only son of a never-married mother, who insisted on continuing to live with her son after he married. Doss later wrote I married, as my father wished, in 1921 to a boy I only knowed about four or five months who had no family, only a mother who was unwed and who had interpreted over my life completely when we were married. She never seen anything wrong with what he done, but she would take spells. She would not let my own mother stay all nighttime Braggs mother took up a lot of his attention, and she often limited Nannies activities. The marriage produced 4 daughters from 1923 to 1927.The stressed-out young mother started drinking, and her casual smoking habit became a concentrated addiction. Both unhappy partners suspect each othercorrectlyof infidelity, and Braggs often disappeared for days on end. In early 1927, they lost their 2 middle girls to suspected food poisoning suspecting that Nannie had killed them, Braggs took firstborn daughter Melvina and fled, leaving newborn Florine behind. Soon after, Braggs mother died and Nannie took a job in a cotton mill to co-occurrence Florine and herself. Braggs brought Melvina back in the summer of 1928 with them was a divorcee with her own child.Braggs and Nannie presently divorced and Nannie took her 2 girls back to her mothers home. He always maintained he odd her because he was frightened of her. edit Second marriage Living and working in Anniston, Nannie soothed her loneliness by reading True Romance and similar reading material. She also resumed poring over the lonely hearts column, and wrote to men advertising there. A particular advert that interested her was that of Robert (Frank) Harrelson, a 23-year-old factory worker from Jacksonville. He sent her romantic poetry, and she sent him a cake.They met and married in 1929, when she was 24, 2 years after her divorce from Braggs. They lived together in Jacksonville, with Melvina and Florine Braggs. after a few months, she discovered that he was an alcoholic and had a criminal record for assault. Despite this, the marriage lasted 16 years. edit Grandchildren Nannies eldest, Melvina, gave birt h to Robert Lee Haynes in 1943. Another baby followed 2 years later, but this died soon afterward. Exhausted from labor and groggy from ether, Melvina thought she saw her mother, who had come to help, stick a hatpin into the babys head.When she asked her husband and sister for clarification, they said Nannie had told them the baby was deadand they observe that she was holding a pin. The doctors, however, couldnt give a positive explanation. The grieving parents drifted apart and Melvina started dating a soldier. Nannie disapproved of him, and while Melvina was visiting her father after a in particular nasty fight with her mom, her son Robert died mysteriously under Grannys care on July 7, 1945. The death was diagnosed as asphyxia from unknown causes, and 2 months later Nannie collected the $ergocalciferol life insurance she had taken out on Robert. edit Death of FrankIn 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied powers at the end of World War II, and Harrelson was among the most robust partiers. After an evening of particularly heavy drinking, he raped Nannie. The following day, as she was tending her rose garden, she discovered Harrelsons corn whiskey jar buried in the ground. The rape had been the last straw for her, so she took the jar and topped it off with rat poison. Harrelson died a painful death that evening. edit Third marriage Doss met her ordinal husband, Arlie Lanning, through another lonely-hearts column while travelling in Lexington, North Carolina, and married him 3 days later.Like his predecessor, Harrelson, Lanning was an alcoholic womanizer. However, in this marriage it was Nannie who often disappearedand for months on end. But when she was home she played the doting housewife, and when he died of what was said to be heart failure, the whole town supported her at his funeral. Soon after, the couples house, which had been left to Lannings sister, ruin down. The insurance money went to Widow Nannie Lanning, who quickly banked it, and after Lanni ngs mother died in her sleep, Nannie left North Carolina and ended up at her sister Dovies home.Dovie was bedridden soon after sister Nans arrival, she died. edit Fourth marriage Looking for yet another husband, Nannie joined the Diamond Circle Club and soon met Richard L. Morton of Emporia, Kansas. He didnt have a drinking problem, but he was a womanizer. Morton met his death in April 19533 months after Nannies mother, Lou, had come to live with them and ended up poisoned to death. edit Fifth marriage Nannie met and married Samuel Doss of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1953. A clean-cut, churchgoing man, he disapproved of the romance novels and stories that Nannie adored.In September, Samuel was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms. The hospital diagnosed a severe digestive tract infection. He was treated and released on October 5. Nannie killed him that evening in her rush to collect the 2 life insurance policies she had taken out on him. This sudden death alerted his doctor, who ordered an autopsy. The autopsy revealed a huge amount of arsenic in his system. Nannie was promptly arrested. edit Confession and conviction Nannie confessed to killing 4 of her husbands, her mother, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert, and her mother-in-law Lanning.The state of Oklahoma centered its case only on Samuel Doss. The prosecution found her mentally fit for trial. Nannie pleaded guilty on May 17, 1955, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The state did not pursue the death penalty callable to her gender. Doss was never charged with the other deaths. She died of leukemia in the hospital ward of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1965. edit References * Wilson, Colin. The Mammoth Book of True umbrage. raw(a) York Carroll Graf Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0536-1 * Nannie Doss the Lonely Hearts Husband Killer. 1 1. Manners, Terry, Deadlier than the Male, 1995. Page 76 ISBN 0-330-33711-4. 2. Tulsa World Oklahoma Centennial Stories 3. Nannie Doss A Who2 Profil e 4. Nannie Doss on TruTVs Crime Library edit External links * Nannie Doss at the Crime Library * 2 The Giggling Grandma at the Malefactors Register Authority control * VIAF 172021019 Persondata Name Doss, Nannie Alternative name calling Short description Date of birth November 4, 1905 Place of birth Blue Mountain, Alabama, United States Date of death June 2, 1965 Place of death Retrieved from http//en. wikipedia. rg/w/index. php? title=Nannie_Doss&oldid=543731678 Categories * 1905 births * 1965 deaths * peck from Anniston, Alabama * 1927 crimes * American serial killers * Female serial killers * American female murderers * Deaths from leukemia * Cancer deaths in Oklahoma * American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment * Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Oklahoma * American people who died in prison custody * Prisoners who died in Oklahoma detention * American people convicted of murder * People convicted of murder by Oklahoma * Murderers for insurance money * Po isonersHidden categories * Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers * Persondata templates without short description parameter Navigation menu Personal tools * Create account * Log in Namespaces * denomination * Talk Variants Views * Read * Edit * View history Actions Search - Top of Form Bottom of Form Navigation * Main page * Contents * feature content * Current events * Random article * Donate to Wikipedia * Wikimedia Shop Interaction * Help * About Wikipedia * Community portal * Recent changes * Contact Wikipedia Toolbox * What links here * Related changes Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Page information * Cite this page Print/export * Create a book * Download as PDF * Printable version Languages * * Francais * Italiano * Magyar * Nederlands * * Edit links * This page was last modified on 13 March 2013 at 0044. * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License additional terms may apply. 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