Nannie Hazle

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==Early life==
 
==Early life==
She was born Nancy Hazle in Blue Mountain, Calhoun County, [[Alabama]] in 1905 to Louisa "Lou" Holden (1879/80-1953) and James Hazle. The 1910 Census says her parents had been married for nine years and he is listed as a "Railroader".  The 1920 Census says he is a "Farmer". Louisa's maiden name comes from [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=6767&iid=NEWS-KS-AT_DA_GL.1954_12_02_0007&r=an&rc=787,413,899,442;608,1042,700,1071;677,1579,764,1608&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss+from+1954-1956&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500566023 this article] in the Atchison Globe, where she is called "...Mrs Louisa Holden Hazle"
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She was born Nancy Hazle in Blue Mountain, Calhoun County, [[Alabama]] in 1905 to Louisa "Lou" Holden (1879/80-1953) and James Hazle. The 1910 Census says her parents had been married for nine years and he is listed as a "Railroader".  The 1920 Census says he is a "Farmer". Louisa's maiden name comes from [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=6767&iid=NEWS-KS-AT_DA_GL.1954_12_02_0007&r=an&rc=787,413,899,442;608,1042,700,1071;677,1579,764,1608&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss+from+1954-1956&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500566023 this article] in the Atchison Globe, where she is called "...Mrs Louisa Holden Hazle".  [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/doss/3.html The crimelibrary article] calls her "Loulisa or Lou", that her maiden name was "Holder", and states of Nannie that "...her grandma Holder was remotely related to the Lincoln family".
  
 
==First husband==
 
==First husband==
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==Second husband==
 
==Second husband==
Nannie then married 23-year-old Robert H Harrelson in 1929 who lived in Jacksonville.  Again crimelibrary calls him "Frank" but the 1930 census shows the family (see sources below).  "This marriage lasted 16 years."  This is the most confused one of the stories.  [http://members.tripod.com/~sherby/index3.html This site] has them marrying also in 1937 and/or in 1945! Which is supposed to be the year of "Frank's" death.  An [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6767&path=1954.11.29.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500560897&rc=877,1654,974,1683;990,1654,1055,1683;1075,2221,1165,2250;1190,2963,1276,2992;1230,3334,1296,3363;909,3538,976,3567&zp=75 article] in the ''Atchison Daily Globe'', [[Nov 29]], 1954 confirms his death in Jacksonville in 1945. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1954_11_29-0002&rc=357,725,455,754;469,725,497,754;104,754,203,783&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500560898 This article] in the ''Albuquerque Journal'' calls him "Ernest" Harrelson.
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Nannie then married 23-year-old Robert H Harrelson in 1929 who lived in Jacksonville.  Again crimelibrary calls him "Frank" but the 1930 census shows the family (see sources below).  "This marriage lasted 16 years."  This is the most confused one of the stories.  [http://members.tripod.com/~sherby/index3.html This site] has them marrying also in 1937 and/or in 1945! Which is supposed to be the year of "Frank's" death.  An [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6767&path=1954.11.29.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500560897&rc=877,1654,974,1683;990,1654,1055,1683;1075,2221,1165,2250;1190,2963,1276,2992;1230,3334,1296,3363;909,3538,976,3567&zp=75 article] in the ''Atchison Daily Globe'', [[Nov 29]], 1954 confirms his death in Jacksonville in 1945. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1954_11_29-0002&rc=357,725,455,754;469,725,497,754;104,754,203,783&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500560898 This article] in the ''Albuquerque Journal'' calls him "Ernest" Harrelson. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51969&iid=News-TE-SA_AN_EX-51969_1954_12_11_0011&rc=175,2233,265,2262;280,2233,355,2262&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500575243 This article] in the ''San Antonio Express'' calls him "Robert Franklin "Frank" Harrelson, and calls his brother "Ernest J Harrelson"
  
 
"Her eldest daughter Melvina had married Mosie Haynes and had a son Robert in 1943 and a daughter Feb 1945."  Again this appears to be an error.  Mosie Haynes was born in 1910, he [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=WWIIenlist%2c&rank=0&gsfn=mosie&gsln=haynes&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=3109943&recoff=1+3 enlisted] for WWII for "...the duration of the war plus six months, a native of Etowah, Alabama, "SINGLE" with dependents.
 
"Her eldest daughter Melvina had married Mosie Haynes and had a son Robert in 1943 and a daughter Feb 1945."  Again this appears to be an error.  Mosie Haynes was born in 1910, he [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=WWIIenlist%2c&rank=0&gsfn=mosie&gsln=haynes&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=3109943&recoff=1+3 enlisted] for WWII for "...the duration of the war plus six months, a native of Etowah, Alabama, "SINGLE" with dependents.
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==Third husband==
 
==Third husband==
She is next supposed "...to have married in 1947 to Arlie Lanning, a resident of Lexington, North Carolina, but a former Alabaman.  Arlie's mother lived in a nearby town.  He died three years later."  Again the dates seem slightly off for some unknown reason.  The North Carolina Death Index has [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=NCdeaths%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Arlie&gsln=Lanning&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=1&recid=1883675&recoff=1+3 Arlie Jackson Lanning born 1900, dying in Lexington] 16 Feb 1952.  And [http://members.tripod.com/~sherby/index3.html this site] says this marriage lasted five years.  An article in the Atchison Daily Globe (cited above) confirms his death in Lexington in 1952.
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She is next supposed "...to have married in 1947 to Arlie Lanning, a resident of Lexington, North Carolina, but a former Alabaman.  Arlie's mother lived in a nearby town.  He died three years later."  Again the dates seem slightly off for some unknown reason.  The North Carolina Death Index has [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=NCdeaths%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Arlie&gsln=Lanning&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=1&recid=1883675&recoff=1+3 Arlie Jackson Lanning born 1900, dying in Lexington] 16 Feb 1952.  And [http://members.tripod.com/~sherby/index3.html Sherby Green here] says this marriage lasted five years.  An article in the Atchison Daily Globe (cited above) confirms his death in Lexington in 1952.
  
 
His [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=WW1draft&so=2&rank=0&gsfn=Arlie&gsln=Lanning&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416 World War I Draft Registration Card] says his mother's name was "Sarah E".  You can see Arlie's family tree [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I65445 here].  And [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8473&path=1954.11.27.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500558849&rc=1968,1421,2074,1454;2092,1421,2180,1454;1987,1521,2076,1554;1744,1933,1836,1966;1788,2100,1859,2133;2059,2171,2146,2204;2141,3429,2204,3462;1934,4096,2008,4129;2097,4229,2186,4262&zp=50 this article] says they were "childhood friends in Anniston, Alabama"
 
His [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=WW1draft&so=2&rank=0&gsfn=Arlie&gsln=Lanning&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416 World War I Draft Registration Card] says his mother's name was "Sarah E".  You can see Arlie's family tree [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I65445 here].  And [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8473&path=1954.11.27.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500558849&rc=1968,1421,2074,1454;2092,1421,2180,1454;1987,1521,2076,1554;1744,1933,1836,1966;1788,2100,1859,2133;2059,2171,2146,2204;2141,3429,2204,3462;1934,4096,2008,4129;2097,4229,2186,4262&zp=50 this article] says they were "childhood friends in Anniston, Alabama"
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==Fourth husband==
 
==Fourth husband==
She next married Richard L Morton, a retired businessman who lived in Emporia, Kansas in Oct 1952 and she moved to Emporia.
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She next married Richard L Morton (1883/9-1953), a retired businessman who lived in Emporia, Kansas in Oct 1952 and she moved to Emporia. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1954_11_28-0001&rc=1914,3471,2016,3500;2031,3471,2060,3500;2075,3471,2177,3500&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500559873 This article] calls him "69", but another article calls him 64.
  
 
So it would seem, that the death of her two grandchildren must have been in this 1952 time period,  (so she must have gone back to Alabama for a few months) and not five years earlier.
 
So it would seem, that the death of her two grandchildren must have been in this 1952 time period,  (so she must have gone back to Alabama for a few months) and not five years earlier.
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==Fifth husband==
 
==Fifth husband==
 
Her fifth and last husband was Samuel Luther "Sam" Doss (1898-1954), age 59, born in Carroll County, Arkansas, but then a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they married June 1954.  See his family tree [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=popfraley&id=I26881 here].  She poisoned him a few months after their marriage.  Per the article [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8473&path=1954.11.27.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500558849&rc=1968,1421,2074,1454;2092,1421,2180,1454;1987,1521,2076,1554;1744,1933,1836,1966;1788,2100,1859,2133;2059,2171,2146,2204;2141,3429,2204,3462;1934,4096,2008,4129;2097,4229,2186,4262&zp=50 "Reticent Widow Investigated in Arsenic Deaths"], in the ''Great Bend Daily Tribune'' (Great Bend, Kansas), [[Nov 27]], 1954, he died Oct 6th 1954.
 
Her fifth and last husband was Samuel Luther "Sam" Doss (1898-1954), age 59, born in Carroll County, Arkansas, but then a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they married June 1954.  See his family tree [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=popfraley&id=I26881 here].  She poisoned him a few months after their marriage.  Per the article [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8473&path=1954.11.27.1&ln=Record%20Nannie%20Doss%20from%201954-1956&st=d&pid=500558849&rc=1968,1421,2074,1454;2092,1421,2180,1454;1987,1521,2076,1554;1744,1933,1836,1966;1788,2100,1859,2133;2059,2171,2146,2204;2141,3429,2204,3462;1934,4096,2008,4129;2097,4229,2186,4262&zp=50 "Reticent Widow Investigated in Arsenic Deaths"], in the ''Great Bend Daily Tribune'' (Great Bend, Kansas), [[Nov 27]], 1954, he died Oct 6th 1954.
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Nannie's campaign ended when a state-performed autopsy showed that Samuel L Doss had poison in his system.
  
 
==Arrest and death==
 
==Arrest and death==
She was finally arrested Nov 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She pled innocent, her public defenders told the court she was mentally incompetent and tried to get her committed to a mental hospital.
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She was finally arrested Nov 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She pled innocent, her public defenders told the court she was mentally incompetent and tried to get her committed to a mental hospital. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1954_12_16-0018&rc=83,2929,191,2954;207,2929,238,2954;253,2929,346,2954&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500580370 This article] states that in mid-December she was "...ordered placed under psychiatric examination to determine her sanity."  She was committed to the Eastern State Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma for 90 days.
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[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7038&iid=NEWS-NC-ST_DA_RE.1954_12_07_0001&rc=627,2617,780,2663;100,2658,144,2704;166,2658,321,2704&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500571137 After her arrest], more bodies were dug up and tested for poison.  Among those were "...Mrs Dovie Weaver, her sister..." and "...Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Lanning, one of Mrs Doss' five mothers-in-law."<blockquote>Ernest Harrelson, a brother of the victim, said when the Higgins infant died he asked his brother's wife what was wrong with the baby. "I don't know but that baby toddling around just might have gotten ahold of some rat poison," he quoted Mrs. Doss as saying.  She didn't explain, he said, how a two-months-old infant could "toddle around".</blockquote>
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However [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51369&iid=News-TE-EL_PA_HE-1954_12_24-0018&rc=212,4566,318,4599;335,4566,423,4599&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500588562 toxicology reports] received by Tulsa County Attorney J Howard Edmonson, showed that her sister and step-grandson died natural deaths.
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Her court-appointed attorneys were Gordon Palterson and Quinn Dickason.  [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1955_03_15-0002&rc=2973,429,3080,454;3095,429,3125,454;3141,429,3248,454&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500808706 This article] states that she was declared insane by the psychiatrists after the 90-day period.  They recommended that she be committed to Eastern State Hospital for treatment.  A sanity trial followed.
  
She was tried and imprisoned in 1955She died in prison in 1965 of leukemia
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District Judge Elmer Adams [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1955_06_03-0024&rc=50,183,225,266;254,183,371,266&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500894744 sentenced Nannie], taking into account her probable insanity, and the bad precedent it would set for her to be the first woman executed by electric chair in Oklahoma, sentenced Nannie to life in prison for the murder by poisoning of Samuel DossOther states had served murder warrants, but they did not bring charges, nor ask for extredition. Nannie Doss died in University Hospital in 1965 of leukemia, the day she was brought there from prison.  The [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1965_06_03-0034&rc=781,196,995,284;1031,196,1210,284;313,450,403,475;417,450,492,475&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=506137634 notice of her death] was published in the ''Albuquerque Journal'' [[Jun 3]], 1965 : "Admitted Killing Four Mates - Leukemia Fatal to Nannie Doss, Husband-Poisoner of Oklahoma" stating that she had been incarcerated at the state penitentiary at McAlester, but was brought to the University Hospital in Oklahoma on May 20 where she died that same night. "Survivors include a daughter Melvina Leonard, who lives at Krebbs." [sic, Krebs, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma]
  
 
== Primary Sources ==
 
== Primary Sources ==
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hazel&sx=y&f19=Alabama&f20=Calhoun&f21=&f14=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f16=&f9=&f10=&_8000C002=&_80008002=&_80018002=&f23=&f22=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1900usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=2&recid=186282&recoff=3+21+22 1900 Census of Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel, 24 as son of John H, age 50 and Nancy J, age 50, married for 28 years
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hazel&sx=y&f19=Alabama&f20=Calhoun&f21=&f14=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f16=&f9=&f10=&_8000C002=&_80008002=&_80018002=&f23=&f22=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1900usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=2&recid=186282&recoff=3+21+22 1900 Census of Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel, 24 as son of John H, age 50 and Nancy J, age 50, married for 28 years
  
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=hazel&sx=y&f7=AL&f9=Calhoun&f10=&f18=&f20=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f23=&f17=&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1910uscenindex&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=13&recid=197713&recoff=3+22+97 1910 Census of Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel 36, Louisa 30, Nancy 4 and two other children.
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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=hazel&sx=y&f7=AL&f9=Calhoun&f10=&f18=&f20=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f23=&f17=&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1910uscenindex&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=13&recid=197713&recoff=3+22+97 1910 Census of Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel 36, married nine years ago; Louisa 30, married nine years ago, mother of 5, 3 living; Annie 6, Nancy 4, Dovie 2
  
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hazle&sx=y&f8=Alabama&f9=Calhoun&f10=&f20=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&f18=&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1920usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=30&recid=262947&recoff=3+21+22 1920 Census of Peaceburg, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel 43, Lou 40, Nancy 14 and three more children.
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*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Hazle&sx=y&f8=Alabama&f9=Calhoun&f10=&f20=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&f18=&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1920usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=30&recid=262947&recoff=3+21+22 1920 Census of Peaceburg, Calhoun County, Alabama] showing James F Hazel 43, Lou 40, Nancy 14, Dovie 11, Addie 8, Roscoe 4
  
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=bragg&sx=&f6Day=&f6Month=&f6Year=&f7=calhoun&gskw=&prox=1&f6=++&db=aldeath&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 Alabama Death Index 1908-59] for "Bragg" in Calhoun County showing that Florine died Oct 1925.  Possibly Hazel Bragg is the other daughter who died, since one by this name died Apr 1924 Calhoun.
 
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=bragg&sx=&f6Day=&f6Month=&f6Year=&f7=calhoun&gskw=&prox=1&f6=++&db=aldeath&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 Alabama Death Index 1908-59] for "Bragg" in Calhoun County showing that Florine died Oct 1925.  Possibly Hazel Bragg is the other daughter who died, since one by this name died Apr 1924 Calhoun.
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== Secondary Sources ==
 
== Secondary Sources ==
*[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/doss Her story on crimelibrary.com]
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*[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/doss "Nannie Doss"], by Joseph Geringer hosted at crimelibrary.com
  
 
[[Category:Serial Killers]]
 
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