92. The Giggling Granny
Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling
BBC
4.3 • 922 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Laura digs into the shocking story of serial killer Nannie Doss, a woman who is said to have killed five of her five husbands as well as her own mother, two of her children and one of her grandchildren.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | They call themselves Evil Corps, a cybercrime gang accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 0:13.0 | And at the center of it all, one of the FBI's most wanted. |
| 0:17.0 | They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow. |
| 0:22.0 | How does a man hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire? |
| 0:26.6 | These guys were going to town on small businesses across America. |
| 0:30.9 | They anger, the frustration, the fear. |
| 0:33.5 | Cyberhack, evil core. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Today, we're travelling back in time to October |
| 0:40.8 | 1954. And to kick things off, I'm taking you to the Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| 0:48.5 | It's a very sad scene. A 49-year-old woman named Nanny Doss is sobbing uncontrollably. She's just heard the news |
| 0:57.9 | that her husband, Sam, has passed away. Nanny is surrounded by a group of hospital staff, all of whom |
| 1:04.5 | are trying to comfort her. The staff at the Hillcrest adore Nanny. She's recently spent three |
| 1:09.6 | weeks at the hospital while Sam was battling a life-threatening gastric virus. |
| 1:14.2 | Nanny's such a warm, friendly woman, |
| 1:16.5 | and she has a very sweet giggle. |
| 1:20.0 | Down the hall, however, there's one member of staff |
| 1:22.9 | who isn't going to comfort Nanny. |
| 1:26.2 | Dr. Dean Heidi. Now, Dean is trying to make sense of exactly what happened. |
| 1:31.3 | Because only a few days previously, he had seen Nanny's husband, Sam Doss, walk out of Hillcrest, fit as a fiddle. |
| 1:38.3 | It was Dean who had treated Sam for the gas of virus. |
| 1:41.3 | He had brought Sam back to full health. |
| 1:43.3 | Plus, Sam was an excellent shape for a 59 |
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