Prolific Serial Killers: Nannie Doss, The “Giggling Granny” Bettmann/Getty ImagesNannie Doss was nicknamed the Giggling Granny because she couldn’t talk about the murders she committed without laughing.
Nancy Hazel, better known in later life as Nannie Doss, was born in 1905 to a father who was determined that his four daughters would walk the straight and narrow path of virtue.
He forbade makeup, pretty clothes, and parties — meaning that there was nothing the romantic Nannie longed for more. Read More...
Dalia Dippolito’s Failed Murder-For-Hire Plot Against Her Husband Palm Beach County Sheriff’s OfficeDalia Dippolito tried to have her husband killed just six months after they got married.
Dalia Dippolito took the words “till death do us part” literally. Just six months after she married her husband Michael, she began making plans to have him killed — and for a moment, she believed she had succeeded. Michael Dippolito met his future wife Dalia in 2008 when he was married to another woman and Dalia was moonlighting as an escort. Read More...
Mark Branch — The Friday The 13th Copycat Killer Paramount PicturesMark Branch owned three hockey masks, knives, and a machete.
As a grocery store clerk who rented horror movies in his spare time, Mark Branch seemed like any other teenager of the 1980s. However, the 19-year-old native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, was anything but. On Oct. 24, 1988, he made his horror-film fantasies a reality by killing an 18-year-old college student while dressed as Jason from Friday the 13th (1980). Read More...
