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Nannie DOSS |
Nannie Doss
Mrs. Nannie Doss, confessed rat poison slayer of four of her five
husbands.
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Mrs. Nannie Lanning Morton Doss. November
1, 1954.
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Mrs. Nannie Doss is questioned in the
arsenic poisonings by Sheriff Al Locke
of Lyon
County, Kansas; Wayne
Owens, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Tulsa
County
Attorney
J. Howard Edmondson. November 1, 1954.
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Mrs. Nannie doss leaves the county attorney's
office en route to her jail cell.
Homicide Capt. Harry Stege is
shown in the background. November 1, 1954.
Nannie Doss, 49, laughs as she is interviewed by Captain Harry
Stege at the police station November
29th, 1954, after allegedly
confessing the poisoning of four of her five husbands. She was
arraigned
November 29th. Although she giggled confessing to the four
arsenic murders, she is said to have
become glum, when questioned on
the deaths of seven other relatives.
Mrs. Nannie Doss, 49, breaks into a smile after signing a
statement for Tulsa officers admitting she
exterminated four of her
five husbands with rat poison. Police quoted Mrs. Doss as saying she
put
the rodent killer in the food of two husbands because she was
jealous of their popularity with other
women and that she poisoned
the other two because they were mean and beat her. She denied
any
connection with the deaths of four of her relatives, including her
mother, two sisters
and step-grandson.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Kinder, who hired alleged husband-poisoner Mrs.
Nannie Doss as a housekeeper
and companion for their three small
children, look at an identification picture of the 49-year-old
widow
at police headquarters. The couple worked with the police three
weeks before the arrest
was made, continuing to let Mrs. Doss live
in their home. November 19, 1954.
Nannie Doss, 49, walks into the
county attorney’s office with investigator Ross Billingsley
on Nov.
27, 1954.
(Oklahoman Archives photo)
Nannie Doss, 49, displays
grandmotherly pride in a courthouse corridor during a hearing to
decide
her fate for the death of her fifth mate, Samuel Doss. She holds
Janice Dianne Haynes, 4,
with her arms around Peggy Lou Haynes, 8. They are daughters of
Melvina Hedrick,
Doss’ daughter. (Oklahoman Archives photo)
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