Genene Jones

In 1982, Genene Jones left Bexar County Medical Center Hospital, in Texas, in the wake of investigations into numerous, inexplicable infants' and young children's deaths. She then took a licensed vocational nursing position at Kerr County clinic. Shortly thereafter, the clinic was plagued by similar deaths at an alarming rate. The children were dying of lethal injections of digoxin or succinylcholine, which affect the heart rate and respiration. These injections were supposedly an attempt by Jones to demonstrate her worth as a nurse. Her plan was to save her child victims and appear as their heroine; unfortunately, most of the children did not survive. In 1984, Jones was convicted of two deaths and was sentenced to 99 years in prison with a possibility of parole in 20 years. Over her 5-year period of poisoning children, Jones was linked to approximately 40 to 50 deaths.