The Incident Nannie Doss, also known as, “The Giggling Grannie” and “Arsenic Annie” killed 11 people across four states. Doss killed those who were closest to her between the years of 1920 and 1954. She killed four of her husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, her mother-in-law, and her grandson. When she would kill her beloved ones, it would look as if they died of natural causes, not from murder. What Doss did was she would poison them by rat poison or she would use arsenic. Doss went 30 years without being suspected of killing her loved ones. Sam Doss was her last killing that put her as a suspect. Sam was admitted into the hospital with flu-like symptoms that ended up being a severe digestive tract infection. Once the
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After she had hit her head she began having blackouts, severe headaches and suffered from depression for many years later. In result, she blamed that incident on her mental stability as years went on. One of Nannies favorite hobbies was to go through her moms’ romance magazines and read. She began fantasizing about having a love that she read about in the magazines. She wanted her love to be what she read, so when she married her husbands she looked for the perfect romance. When she didn’t get the perfect romance she had fantasized about she killed them and began looking for another soulmate who could fulfill her fantasy of a perfect …show more content…
The stories in the magazine became a reality to Nannie. She craved the attention from the boys as well when she would go to the barn dances at night. She believed that what she read in the romance magazines was how real love was supposed to be; she set out to find that love, and it was as if it was her goal. Throughout her five marriages, Nannie would find certain qualities she was looking for in her perfect romance. Then, throughout her marriage she would notice certain qualities she did not like or was not peaked in her ideal romance; in result, she would kill them by poison or arsenic. After she killed them she would go back to a ‘Lonely Love’ column and find her next true
After she had hit her head she began having blackouts, severe headaches and suffered from depression for many years later. In result, she blamed that incident on her mental stability as years went on. One of Nannies favorite hobbies was to go through her moms’ romance magazines and read. She began fantasizing about having a love that she read about in the magazines. She wanted her love to be what she read, so when she married her husbands she looked for the perfect romance. When she didn’t get the perfect romance she had fantasized about she killed them and began looking for another soulmate who could fulfill her fantasy of a perfect …show more content…
The stories in the magazine became a reality to Nannie. She craved the attention from the boys as well when she would go to the barn dances at night. She believed that what she read in the romance magazines was how real love was supposed to be; she set out to find that love, and it was as if it was her goal. Throughout her five marriages, Nannie would find certain qualities she was looking for in her perfect romance. Then, throughout her marriage she would notice certain qualities she did not like or was not peaked in her ideal romance; in result, she would kill them by poison or arsenic. After she killed them she would go back to a ‘Lonely Love’ column and find her next true