Deadly Dames II
Episode 5
A popular granny who poisoned her family for the money and the laughs. An angel of death nurse who kept a list of the souls she saved. A teen babysitter who smothered her young charges for no reason at all.
Six true tales from the Gothic South with a single thread running through: woman who, for either money or reasons they couldn’t explain, killed family, friends, and complete strangers.
In this episode:
West Virginia “Angel of Death” nursing assistant Reta Phyllis Mays who was suspected of killing more than a dozen elderly veterans starting in 2017
The bizarre case of nurse Bobbie Sue Terrell whose story included arson, psychiatric care, self-harm, and string of shocking deaths at Saint Petersburg’s North Horizon Health Center in the 1980s
Florida native Christine Laverne Slaughter who was charged with the smothering and shaking deaths of six infants who had been entrusted to her care
The South Carolina story of Lavinia Fisher, a 19th century inn keeper and alleged highwayman, who was said to have run a profitable murder ring as one of America’s earliest female serial killers
Church-going grandmother Janie Lou Gibbs from Cordele, Georgia, who used arsenic to kill her husband, grandson, and three sons
The infamous Nannie Doss, known as the Giggling Granny, an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of nearly a dozen people between 1927 and 1954
Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content.
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