Nannie Doss: The Giggling Granny

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong dives into the case of Nannie Doss, also known as the “Giggling Granny.” From 1927 to 1954, Doss poisoned and killed four of her five husbands – and was even suspected of killing her own family members along the way. By luring her love interests from “lonely hearts” newspaper columns and keeping up a sweet, smiley exterior, Nannie was able to kill undetected for years, with no one suspecting a thing. Candice explores how Nannie’s method of murder kept her under the radar, and why she felt compelled to kill her loved ones.

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0:19.6	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:25.0	Please be advised. In the world of mythology, few figures are as feared and infamous as Medea.
0:43.0	She was the ultimate woman scorned,
0:46.0	a sorceress who used her cunning and magical powers
0:50.0	to exact a brutal revenge. After helping her husband Jason secure the
0:57.5	golden fleece, Medea gave up everything for him, her family, her homeland. But when Jason betrayed her by taking
1:07.0	a new bride, Medea unleashed a plan so dark and calculated it still sends chills down my spine.
1:16.0	She didn't just kill his new wife.
1:19.0	She murdered her own children to cause Jason the most unimaginable pain. This act of
1:26.5	betrayal and revenge echoes through time, solidifying Medea as a symbol of dangerous, wicked cunning.
1:36.7	But you do not have to look to ancient myths
1:39.2	to find women capable of such dark and methodical violence.
1:43.7	In the 20th century, a real life media
1:47.0	named Nanny Doss, better known as the giggling granny,
1:52.0	maintain an air of sweet domesticity while simultaneously leaving
1:58.3	a trail of bodies in her unassuming wake.
2:03.0	Unlike Medea, Nanny did not use magic.
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