Nancy Hazel, later known as Nannie Doss, was born on November 4, 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Nannie was one of five children of Jim Hazle and Louisa Holder Hazle. He endured a violent and despondent youth with an oppressive and callous father. Nannie never learned to read well, and her education was patchy due to her father pulling her out of school during the sixth grade to help work on the farm. Nancy was a prisoner in her house. Her mother, however, was considered adoring and kind to Nannie and her three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and a husband with an unpleasant streak (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm). Her favorite diversion was understanding her mother's romantic books and wishing for a romantic destiny of her own. Eventually, Nannie would become obsessed with her quest for the ideal spouse and romance. When Nannie was about seven years old, she and her family were taking a trip to visit relatives in south Alabama on a train. The train stopped abruptly and Nannie was thrown forward hitting her head on a metal bar in front of her. For countless years, Nannie suffered from severe headaches, fainting spells and struggled with depression. He later referred to this wound as the source of his future destructive conduct. When Nannie and her three sisters reached adolescence, their father prevented his four daughters from wearing makeup or seductive clothes. This is with the aim of not being described as promiscuous. Furthermore, he pointed out that they were molested by older men. To his dismay he discovered that Nannie had been molested by a series of neighborhood men before she reached her mid-teens. In... the middle of the paper... she was ready to kill her husbands and blame everything on the head injury she had suffered as a child, which she said had caused her lifelong headaches (http:// www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3619). The nanny insisted that she had not killed for profit and that her husbands' life insurance payments were barely enough to cover funeral expenses. The nanny definitely lived with one foot in a dream world. Her motive was to find the perfect mate who would love her, "the true love story of a lifetime." When interviewed about her life at McAlester Prison in Tulsa, Doss complained that the only job she was allowed was in the laundry room, noting that her offers to work in the kitchen were politely declined (http://www.viralnova .com/nannie -dos/). Doss died of leukemia on June 2, 1965, on the tenth anniversary of her incarceration, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Russellville, Kentucky..