Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss From Wikipedia, the free reference book Jump to: route, search Nannie Doss| Background information| Birth name| Nancy Hazle| Also known as| The Giggling Nanny, The Giggling Granny, The Jolly Black Widow, The Lonely Hearts Killer| Born| (1905-11-04)November 4, 1905 Blue Mountain, Alabama, United States| Died| June 2, 1965(1965-06-02) (matured 59)| Cause of death| Leukemia| Penalty| Life imprisonment| Killings| Number of victims| 11| Country| United States| State(s)| Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, Oklahoma|Date apprehended| October, 1954| Nannie Doss (November 4, 1905[1] †June 2, 1965[2]) was a sequential executioner answerable for the passings of 11 individuals between the 1920s and 1954. [3] She at long last admitted to the killings in October 1954, after her fifth spouse kicked the bucket in a little medical clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On the whole, it was uncovered that she had murdered 4 spouses, 2 youngsters, her two sisters, her mom, a grandson, and a nephew. C ontents[hide] * 1 Early life * 2 First marriage * 3 Second marriage * 3. 1 Grandchildren * 3. Passing of Frank * 4 Third marriage * 5 Fourth marriage * 6 Fifth marriage * 7 Confession and conviction * 8 References * 9 External links| [edit] Early life Doss was conceived in Blue Mountain, Alabama as Nancy Hazle to Lou and James Hazle. Nannie was one of five youngsters; she had one sibling and three sisters. Both Nannie and her mom detested James, who was a controlling dad and spouse with a terrible streak. There is proof that Doss was considered misguidedly, as James and Lou wedded after 1905; registration records additionally show that in 1905 she and her mom were living all alone. [4] She had a miserable childhood.She was a poor understudy who never figured out how to understand well; her instruction was whimsical in light of the fact that her dad constrained his kids to deal with the family ranch as opposed to going to class. At the point when she was around 7 years of age, the fa mily was taking a train to see family members in southern Alabama; when the train halted out of nowhere, Nannie hit her head on the metal bar on the seat before her. For a considerable length of time after, she endured extreme cerebral pains, power outages and wretchedness; she accused these and her psychological unsteadiness on that mishap. During adolescence, her preferred interest was perusing her mom's sentiment magazines and longing for her own sentimental future.Later, her preferred part was the desolate hearts segment. The Hazle sisters' high school years were limited by their dad; he disallowed them to wear cosmetics and alluring attire. He was attempting to keep them from being attacked by men, yet that occurred on a few events. He additionally denied them to go to moves and other get-togethers. [edit] First marriage Doss was first hitched at age 16, to Charley Braggs. They had met at the Linen Thread processing plant where the two of them worked, and with her dad's endorse ment they wedded following 4 months of dating.He was the main child of a never-wedded mother, who demanded proceeding to live with her child after he wedded. Doss later composed I wedded, as my dad wished, in 1921 to a kid I just knowed around four or five months who had no family, just a mother who was unwed and who had assumed control over my life totally when we were hitched. She seen nothing amiss with what he done, however she would take spells. She would not let my own mom remain all night†¦ Braggs' mom took up a great deal of his consideration, and she frequently restricted Nannie's exercises. The marriage created 4 little girls from 1923 to 1927.The worried youthful mother began drinking, and her easygoing smoking propensity turned into an overwhelming dependence. Both troubled accomplices presumed each otherâ€correctlyâ€of betrayal, and Braggs frequently vanished for a considerable length of time. In mid 1927, they lost their 2 center young ladies to suspected fo od contamination; suspecting that Nannie had executed them, Braggs took firstborn little girl Melvina and fled, abandoning infant Florine. Before long, Braggs' mom passed on and Nannie took a vocation in a cotton plant to help Florine and herself. Braggs brought Melvina back in the late spring of 1928; with them was a divorced person with her own child.Braggs and Nannie before long separated and Nannie returned her 2 young ladies to her mom's home. He constantly kept up he left her since he was startled of her. [edit] Second marriage Living and working in Anniston, Nannie mitigated her dejection by perusing True Romance and comparable understanding material. She additionally continued poring over the forlorn hearts section, and kept in touch with men promoting there. A specific advert that intrigued her was that of Robert (Frank) Harrelson, a 23-year-old assembly line laborer from Jacksonville. He sent her sentimental verse, and she sent him a cake.They met and wedded in 1929, when she was 24, 2 years after her separation from Braggs. They lived respectively in Jacksonville, with Melvina and Florine Braggs. Following a couple of months, she found that he was a heavy drinker and had a criminal record for attack. In spite of this, the marriage kept going 16 years. [edit] Grandchildren Nannie's oldest, Melvina, brought forth Robert Lee Haynes in 1943. Another infant followed 2 years after the fact, yet this kicked the bucket soon subsequently. Depleted from work and tired from ether, Melvina thought she saw her mom, who had come to help, stick a hatpin into the infant's head.When she approached her better half and sister for explanation, they said Nannie had revealed to them the child was deadâ€and they seen that she was holding a pin. The specialists, in any case, couldn't give a positive clarification. The lamenting guardians floated separated and Melvina began dating a fighter. Nannie objected to him, and keeping in mind that Melvina was visiting her dad af ter an especially awful battle with her mother, her child Robert passed on strangely under Granny's consideration on July 7, 1945. The passing was analyzed as asphyxia from obscure causes, and after 2 months Nannie gathered the $500 disaster protection she had taken out on Robert. [edit] Death of FrankIn 1945, Japan gave up to the Allied forces toward the finish of World War II, and Harrelson was among the most powerful partiers. After a night of especially overwhelming drinking, he assaulted Nannie. The next day, as she was tending her rose nursery, she found Harrelson's corn bourbon container covered in the ground. The assault had been the final irritation that will be tolerated for her, so she took the container and finished it off with rodent poison. Harrelson kicked the bucket an agonizing demise that night. [edit] Third marriage Doss met her third spouse, Arlie Lanning, through another forlorn hearts segment while going in Lexington, North Carolina, and wedded him 3 days later .Like his forerunner, Harrelson, Lanning was a heavy drinker womanizer. Nonetheless, in this marriage it was Nannie who regularly disappearedâ€and for quite a long time. In any case, when she was home she played the hovering housewife, and when he passed on of what was supposed to be cardiovascular breakdown, the entire town bolstered her at his memorial service. Before long, the couple's home, which had been left to Lanning's sister, burned to the ground. The protection cash went to Widow Nannie Lanning, who immediately banked it, and subsequent to Lanning's mom kicked the bucket in her rest, Nannie left North Carolina and wound up at her sister Dovie's home.Dovie was out of commission; not long after sister Nan's appearance, she passed on. [edit] Fourth marriage Looking for one more spouse, Nannie joined the Diamond Circle Club and before long met Richard L. Morton of Emporia, Kansas. He didn't tend to drink too much, yet he was a womanizer. Morton met his demise in April 1953à ¢â‚¬3 months after Nannie's mom, Lou, had reached live with them and wound up harmed to death. [edit] Fifth marriage Nannie met and wedded Samuel Doss of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1953. A neat and tidy, churchgoing man, he objected to the romance books and stories that Nannie adored.In September, Samuel was admitted to the clinic with influenza like manifestations. The medical clinic analyzed a serious stomach related tract disease. He was dealt with and discharged on October 5. Nannie slaughtered him that night in her hurry to gather the 2 disaster protection approaches she had taken out on him. This unexpected demise cautioned his primary care physician, who requested a post-mortem. The post-mortem examination uncovered a colossal measure of arsenic in his framework. Nannie was instantly captured. [edit] Confession and conviction Nannie admitted to executing 4 of her spouses, her mom, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert, and her relative Lanning.The territory of Oklahoma fixated its case just on Samuel Doss. The indictment discovered her intellectually fit for preliminary. Nannie conceded on May 17, 1955, and was condemned to life detainment. The state didn't seek after capital punishment because of her sex. Doss was never accused of different passings. She kicked the bucket of leukemia in the medical clinic ward of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1965. [edit] References * Wilson, Colin. The Mammoth Book of True Crime. New York: Carroll ; Graf Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0536-1 * Nannie Doss the Lonely Hearts Husband Killer. [1] 1. Habits, Terry, Deadlier than the Male, 1995. Page 76 ISBN 0-330-33711-4. 2. ^ Tulsa World: Oklahoma Centennial Stories 3. ^ Nannie Doss: A Who2 Profile 4. ^ Nannie Doss on TruTV's Crime Library [edit] External connections * Nannie Doss at the Crime Library * [2] The Giggling Grandma at the Malefactor's Register Authority control| * VIAF: 172021019| | Persondata| Name| Doss, Nannie| Alternative names| | Short description| | D ate of birth| November 4, 1905| Place of birth| Blue Mountain, Alabama, United States| Date of death| June 2, 1965| Place of death| | Retrieved from â€Å"http://en. wikipedia. rg/w/record. php? title=Nannie_Doss&oldid=543731678† Categories: * 1905 births * 1965 passings * People from Anniston, Alabama * 1927 wrongdoings * American sequential executioners * Female sequential executioners * American female killers * Deaths from leukemia * Cancer passings in Oklahoma * American detainees condemned to life detainment * Prisoners condemned to life detainment by Oklahoma * American individuals who kicked the bucket in jail care * Prisoners who kicked the bucket in Oklahoma confinement * American individuals sentenced for homicide * People indicted for homicide by Okl