Janie Lou Gibbs (born 1933) was a serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with arsenic in 1966 and 1967.
Gibbs' husband of 20 years, Charles Clayton Gibbs, 40, died January 21, 1966. Her son, Melvin W. Gibbs, 16, died January 23, 1967, followed by her younger son, Marvin H. Gibbs, 13, on August 23, 1967. She inherited $31,000 from their deaths and tithed 10 percent to her chur...
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Janie Lou Gibbs (born 1933) was a serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with arsenic in 1966 and 1967.
Gibbs' husband of 20 years, Charles Clayton Gibbs, 40, died January 21, 1966. Her son, Melvin W. Gibbs, 16, died January 23, 1967, followed by her younger son, Marvin H. Gibbs, 13, on August 23, 1967. She inherited $31,000 from their deaths and tithed 10 percent to her church.
The deaths had previously been attributed to liver disease, but she was eventually arrested Christmas Eve 1967 after her oldest son, Roger, 19, died in the same fashion as his father, two brothers, and infant son.
Despite the unusual coincidences of so many deaths in such a short period of time, she blocked insurance adjusters' requests for autopsies. Although insurance adjusters were suspicious, most of Gibbs' neighbors and friends from church could not believe that the 35-year-old grandmother who ran a day-care center could be a serial...
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