Black Widow: Janie Lou Gibbs
Tuesday July 4, 2006
Janie Lou Gibbs, who was regarded as a pillar in her Cordele, Georgia church and a devoted mother, murdered her husband, three children and a grandson by poisoning them with arsenic over a two year period, so she could collect on the life insurance policies she had on each victim. How did she finally get caught?
See Also: Notorious Crimes and Criminals
See Also: Notorious Crimes and Criminals
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Janie Gibbs also had an at home daycare. My brother and I along with two other children were taken care of by Janie while our parents worked. She was like family, we called her “Aunt Janie”. My family was devasted the day she was arrested. My mother says we spent Christmas Eve having fingernail clippings and hair samples taken to test us for poisoning. You may not be aware she was planning to pioson her mother and her preacher because she thought they suspected she was behind the deaths of her family members.