On this day, Dec. 24, in 1967, Georgia grandmother and church lady Janie Lou Gibbs was arrested on charges of poisoning three sons, a grandson and her husband to collect on the life insurance policies.
Gibbs was considered a pillar of her church in Cordele, Ga. In 1965, when her husband died suddenly after enjoying one of Gibbs’ home-cooked meals, the show of sympathy for her was so overwhelming that Gibbs gave part of the life insurance money to her church.
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