Serial killer project

Born on December 25th 1932, Janie Lou Gibbs attained an average life style in Cordele, Georgia. She was a mother to three children and wife to Charles Gibbs and attended church regularly. The community of Cordele adored her. It was a life everyone was accustomed to and there were no obvious signs that Janie Lou Gibbs had taken part in the murders of her family.

It was said to be a strange night on January 21st, 1966. After a home cooked meal in the Gibbs’ household, Charles Clayton Gibbs collapsed. He was hurriedly rushed to the hospital for treatment. Unfortunately, he passed away the same night he collapsed; leaving the Gibbs is a mournful state. The doctors had classified the illness as an undiagnosed liver disease. A distressed Janie Gibbs was a great apprehension to Cordele and they rushed to her side immediately. Since she was an immense part to the church, donations were given to the Gibbs family to help support the family financially. Above all, they were there for guidance to help the family, more importantly Janie. When things seemed to be at its worst, another sudden death occurred.

Marvin Ronald Gibbs was the youngest son of Janie and Charles’ three children. Only being thirteen, he experienced the loss of his father which meant he was not able to participate in what boys with fathers could do such as fishing or playing football. It was only eight months after his father’s death that he started feeling ill. His condition didn’t improve and died on August 29th, 1966. The doctors that had also dealt with Charles Gibbs noticed that Marvin was experiencing the same related sickness that his father had. The doctors had classified this as Hepatitis. Janie had now lost her husband her youngest son, adding more grief to the p...

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... killed them. She also was a loyal member to the church and seemed to be a very whole-hearted person. They also knew that she was able to differentiate good from bad. This brought Janie back to the stands again to be tried.

Dr. Larry Howard and people close to Janie were able to have her tried again for murder. She was discharged from the mental institution and was put in prison to serve five life sentences in the early 1970’s.

Janie Lou Gibbs was in prison until 1999 when she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She was forced to be released for a medical dispute and was taken under full custody of her sister after being denied parole seventeen times. She was settles into a nursing home soon after in Douglasville, Georgia and was in a wheelchair until the rest of her time on earth. On February 7th, 2010, she died alone in the same nursing home, making her 77.