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Nannie Doss in Blue Mountain, Alabama. She was a serial murderer who was responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954. She finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, when her fifth husband had died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In all, it was revealed that she had killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson and a nephew. She has been given the monikers "The Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow".

Nannie Doss was sentenced to a life term in 1964. At her trial, she proclaimed that she had not killed in order to procure the small insurance policies she had taken out on the victims. According to Nannie Doss, she had killed for "true love". She died in her cell a year later of leukemia.