Nannie Doss

Nannie Doss
Nannie Doss
	Mugshot, October 1954
Born	Nancy Agnes Hazel; November 4, 1905; Blue Mountain, Alabama, U.S.
Died	June 2, 1965 (aged 59); Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, U.S.
Resting place	Oak Hill Memorial Park
Other names	The Giggling Nanny; The Giggling Granny; The Jolly Black Widow; The Lonely Hearts Killer;
Spouse	; Charley Braggs (m. 1921; div. 1928) ; Robert Franklin Harrelson (m. 1929; died 1945) ; Arlie Jackson Lanning (m. 1946; died 1952) ; Richard Lewis Morton Sr. (m. 1952; died 1953) ; Samuel Luther Doss (m. 1954; died 1954) ;
Motive	Life insurance money; Search for "the real romance of life"
Convictions	Murder (1 count)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment
Details
Victims	11
Span of crimes	1927–1954
Country	United States
States	Alabama; North Carolina; Kansas; Oklahoma;
Date apprehended	October 1954

Nannie Doss (born Nancy Agnes Hazel, November 4, 1905 – June 2, 1965) was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between 1927 and 1954. Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard.

Doss finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, after her fifth husband died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law.