How Dana Gray became

Dana Sue Gray defied the serial killer stereotype. Born in the late 1950s to a former Hollywood starlet, she became a nurse but was fired for misusing prescription drugs.

After a failed marriage and financial ruin, she began targeting elderly women. On Valentine’s Day 1994, she allegedly killed Norma Davis, though never convicted.

She strangled June Roberts with a telephone cord, then used her credit cards for lavish shopping sprees. She killed Dora Beebe and attempted to murder Dorinda Hawkins, who survived and helped identify her.

Gray was caught after overspending on a victim’s credit card. She pleaded guilty to two murders and attempted murder, receiving life without parole in exchange for not being tried for Davis’s death.

She admitted, “Shopping puts me at rest.” Now 67, she remains incarcerated in California.

Behind bars, she advocates for female inmates’ rights but refuses to discuss her crimes publicly, not wanting to retraumatize victims’ families.

She says she has changed and is deeply sorry, adding, “If they want to come and cuss me out… I invite them to, because it’s cathartic for them.”