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Nannie Doss (“The Giggling Nanny/Granny”, “The Jolly Black Widow”) “Oh, that Richard Morton! … Yes, I was married to him.” Doss was born in Blue Mountain, Alabama as Nancy Hazle, to James and Lou Hazle. Nannie was one of five children, she had one brother and three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak. Doss had an unhappy childhood, she was a poor student who never learned to read well; her father forced his children to work on the family farm instead of attending school. When she was around seven years old, the family was taking a train when the train stopped suddenly. Nannie hit her head on the metal bar on the seat in front of her. For years after, she suffered headaches, blackouts and depression. She later confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert and her mother-in-law, Arlie Lanning’s mother. The state centered its case on Samuel Doss. The prosecution found her mentally fit for trial. Nannie pleaded guilty on May 17, 1955. She was sentenced to life. The state did not pursue the death penalty due 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.

Nannie Doss (“The Giggling Nanny/Granny”, “The Jolly Black Widow”)

“Oh, that Richard Morton! … Yes, I was married to him.”

Doss was born in Blue Mountain, Alabama as Nancy Hazle, to James and Lou Hazle. Nannie was one of five children, she had one brother and three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak. Doss had an unhappy childhood, she was a poor student who never learned to read well; her father forced his children to work on the family farm instead of attending school. When she was around seven years old, the family was taking a train when the train stopped suddenly. Nannie hit her head on the metal bar on the seat in front of her. For years after, she suffered headaches, blackouts and depression.

She later confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister Dovie, her grandson Robert and her mother-in-law, Arlie Lanning’s mother. The state centered its case on Samuel Doss. The prosecution found her mentally fit for trial. Nannie pleaded guilty on May 17, 1955. She was sentenced to life. The state did not pursue the death penalty due 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.