1. Nannie Doss finally confessed to the murders in October 1954, after her fifth husband died in a small hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
22 Facts About Nannie Doss
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Nannie Doss was born on November 4,1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama, now part of Anniston.
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Nannie Doss was born to Louisa "Lou" and James F Hazel.
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Nannie Doss was 7 and taking a train with her family to visit relatives in southern Alabama when the train abruptly stopped and she hit her head on a metal bar on the seat in front of her.
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Nannie Doss blamed these and her mental instability on that accident.
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Nannie Doss's father forbade his daughters to wear makeup and attractive clothing as he believed it would prevent them from being molested by men.
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Nannie Doss forbade them to go to dances and other social events.
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Nannie Doss was first married at age 16 to Charley Braggs, her co-worker at a linen factory.
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Nannie Doss never seen anything wrong with what she done, but she would take spells.
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The stressed-out Nannie Doss started drinking, and her casual smoking habit became a heavy addiction.
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Braggs' mother died not much later and Nannie Doss took a job in a cotton mill to support Florine and herself.
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Braggs and Nannie Doss soon divorced, and Nannie Doss took her two girls back to her mother's home.
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Nannie Doss disapproved of him, and while Melvina was visiting her father after a particularly nasty fight with her mother, her son Robert died mysteriously under Nannie Doss's care on July 7,1945.
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The death was diagnosed as asphyxia from unknown causes, and two months later Nannie Doss collected the $500 life insurance she had taken out on Robert.
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Nannie Doss met her third husband, Arlie Lanning, through another lonely-hearts column while travelling in Lexington, North Carolina, and married him three days later.
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Nannie Doss did not have a drinking problem, but he was adulterous.
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Nannie Doss was a Nazarene minister who had lost his family to a tornado in Carroll County, Arkansas.
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Nannie Doss killed him that evening in her rush to collect the two life-insurance policies she had taken out on him.
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Nannie Doss confessed to killing four of her husbands, her mother, her sister, her grandson, and her mother-in-law.
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Nannie Doss was prosecuted by J Howard Edmondson, who later became governor of Oklahoma.
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Nannie Doss died from leukemia in the hospital ward of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1965.
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Nannie Doss is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park in McAlester, Oklahoma.